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–adjective

1.	susceptible to debate, challenge, or doubt; questionable: Whether this is the best plan of action or not is arguable.

2.	susceptible to being supported by convincing or persuasive argument: Admirers agree that it is arguable he is the finest pianist of his generation.

[Origin: 1605–15; argue + -able

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adj.

Open to argument: an arguable question, still unresolved.
That can be argued plausibly; defensible in argument: three arguable points of law.

ar'gu·a·bly adv.

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arguable
adjective
1.	capable of being supported by argument
2.	open to argument or debate; "that is a moot question"

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ˈarguable adjective

able to be put forward in argument
Example: It is arguable that he would have been better to go.

Arabic:	قابِل لِلجِدَل والنِّقاش
Chinese (Simplified):	可争辩的
Chinese (Traditional):	可爭辯的
Czech:	obhajitelný
Danish:	diskutabel
Dutch:	verdedigbaar
Estonian:	vaieldav
Finnish:	kiistanalainen
French:	défendable
German:	vertretbar
Greek:	συζητήσιμος
Hungarian:	vitatható
Icelandic:	umdeilanlegur
Indonesian:	bisa dikemukakan
Italian:	sostenibile

Japanese:	議論の余地がある
Korean:	논의할 수 있는
Latvian:	strīdīgs; apstrīdams
Lithuanian:	ginčytinas
Norwegian:	diskutabelt
Polish:	sporny, dyskusyjny
Portuguese (Brazil):	discutível
Portuguese (Portugal):	discutível
Romanian:	discutabil
Russian:	спорный
Slovak:	diskutabilný
Slovenian:	ki se da zagovarjati
Spanish:	discutible
Swedish:	diskutabel
Turkish:	tartışılabilir