Meaning & use
Debateable
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Open to argument or discussion; not settled or certain, so that reasonable people could disagree.
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Whether the movie deserved the award is highly debateable.
The exact boundary between the two provinces remained debateable for centuries.
A note on using this word
An accepted variant spelling of "debatable"; both forms appear in dictionaries, though "debatable" is more common in American English.
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certainindisputable
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