Meaning & use
Ascertainable
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Able to be discovered, found out, or established with certainty.
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The court required proof of an ascertainable loss before awarding damages.
The cause of the malfunction was not immediately ascertainable.
A note on using this word
Frequently appears in legal writing, particularly in contract and insurance disputes over provable losses.
Words with a similar meaning
determinablediscoverable
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Words with an opposite meaning
unknowable
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