Meaning & use
debatable
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Open to question or dispute; not clearly settled.
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Whether the policy actually reduced crime is debatable.
It's debatable whether the sequel was better than the original film.
A note on using this word
"Debatable" doesn't necessarily suggest a claim is wrong, only that reasonable people could disagree about it.
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Words with an opposite meaning
certainindisputable
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