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Англо-русский дипломатический словарь. 2013.
Англо-русский дипломатический словарь. 2013.
debatable — I adjective admitting of doubt, ambiguous, arguable, at issue, baffling, capable of being debated, changeable, confutable, conjecturable, conjectural, contentious, contestable, controversial, controvertible, cryptic, deniable, disposed to… … Law dictionary
controversial — I adjective arguable, at issue, at odds, at variance, confutable, contestable, controversus, controvertible, debatable, dialectic, disputable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, eristic, exhibiting pros and cons, factious, in dispute, in question, not … Law dictionary
debatable — [adj] controversial arguable, between rock and hard place*, between sixes and sevens*, betwixt and between*, bone of contention*, borderline, chancy*, contestable, disputable, doubtful, dubious, iffy*, in dispute, moot, mootable*, open to… … New thesaurus
controversial — [kän΄trə vʉr′shəl, kän΄trə vʉr′sē əl] adj. [LL controversialis] 1. of, subject to, or stirring up controversy; debatable 2. Rare liking to take part in controversy; disputatious controversially adv … English World dictionary
debatable — adjective a) Controversial. Not fully proved, open to debate, sometimes used humorously. Those data are debatable, no one has been able to replicate them. b) Of a person, argumentative. Its debatable whether he is a stud … Wiktionary
controversial, contentious — A subject or topic is controversial; an individual is contentious: Every political issue is controversial to this contentious man. Controversial means debatable, arguable, disputable. Contentious means quarrelsome, argumentative … Dictionary of problem words and expressions
controversial — controversialism, n. controversialist, n. controversially, adv. /kon treuh verr sheuhl/, adj. 1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of controversy; polemical: a controversial book. 2. subject to controversy; debatable: a controversial decision … Universalium
controversial — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. debatable, contestable, arguable, polemic, polemical, controvertible, open to question, open to discussion, open to doubt, open to debate, dubious, doubtful, dubitable, questionable, moot, subject to controversy, in… … English dictionary for students
debatable — adjective the historical accuracy of this account is debatable Syn: arguable, disputable, questionable, open to question, controversial, contentious; doubtful, dubious, uncertain, unsure, unclear; borderline, inconclusive, moot, unsettled,… … Thesaurus of popular words
debatable — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. disputable, unsettled, up for discussion; see controversial , questionable 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. undecided, questionable, moot, controversial, dubious, disputable, doubtful, unsettled, contestable, *the… … English dictionary for students
controversial — adjective controversial issues such as abortion Syn: contentious, disputed, at issue, disputable, debatable, arguable, vexed, tendentious; informal hot … Thesaurus of popular words