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| Main Entry: | debatable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | controversial |
| Synonyms: | 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 question, problematic, problematical, questionable, the jury's out, touch and go, uncertain, undecided, unsettled, up for discussion |
| Antonyms: | certain, inarguable, incontrovertible, indubious, questionable, sure, uncontestable, undoubted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | ambivalent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conflicting |
| Synonyms: | clashing, contradictory, debatable, doubtful, equivocal, hesitant, inconclusive, irresolute, mixed, opposed, uncertain, undecided, unresolved, unsure, vacillating, warring, wavering, fluctuating |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, settled, sure, unequivocal, resolved |
| Main Entry: | forensic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | judicial, legal |
| Synonyms: | argumentative, debatable, dialectic, moot, rhetorical, dialectical, disputative, juridical, juristic, polemical |
| Main Entry: | hypothetical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | guessed, assumed |
| Synonyms: | academic, casual, conditional, conjectural, contingent, debatable, disputable, doubtful, equivocal, imaginary, imagined, indefinite, indeterminate, presumptive, pretending, problematic, putative, questionable, speculative, supposed, suspect, theoretical, uncertain, vague, assumptive, concocted, conjecturable, contestable, postulated, presupposed, provisory, refutable, stochastic, suppositional, suppositious, theoretic, unconfirmed |
| Antonyms: | calculated, confirmed, factual, measured, proved, real, reliable, truthful, proven |
| Main Entry: | moot |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doubtful, arguable |
| Synonyms: | controversial, debatable, disputable, dubious, open, problematic, questionable, suspect, uncertain, undecided, unresolved, unsettled, at issue, contestable, open to debate |
| Antonyms: | decided, definite, proven, resolved |
| Main Entry: | on the fence |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | undecided |
| Synonyms: | ambivalent, borderline, debatable, divided, hesitant, iffy*, impartial, indecisive, irresolute, neutral, open, tentative, torn, uncertain, unclear, uncommitted, undetermined, unsure, up in the air, wavering, wishy-washy*, betwixt and between, blowing hot and cold, hemming and hawing, in the middle, not definite, not sure, of two minds, running hot and cold, waffling |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | problematic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | open to doubt |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, arguable, chancy, debatable, disputable, doubtful, dubious, enigmatic, iffy*, indecisive, moot, open, precarious, puzzling, questionable, suspect, tricky, uncertain, unsettled, dubitable, problematical, up for grabs |
| Antonyms: | certain, settled, solvable, sure, fixable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | questionable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doubtful, uncertain |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, apocryphal, arguable, contingent, controversial, cryptic, debatable, disputable, dubious, enigmatic, equivocal, fishy*, hypothetical, iffy*, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, moot, mysterious, obscure, occult, oracular, problematic, provisional, shady, suspect, suspicious, undefined, unreliable, unsettled, vague, controvertible, dubitable, hard to believe, open to doubt, open to question, paradoxical, problematical, unconfirmed, under advisement, under examination, unproven |
| Notes: | questionable means open to doubt, disagreement, or challenge - or of dubious morality, honesty, or respectability; questioning (adjective) means showing curiosity or inquiring about - or (noun) an inquiry or interrogation |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, indisputable, sure, undoubted, unquestionable, proven |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | undecided |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not sure, not definite |
| Synonyms: | ambivalent, borderline, debatable, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, hesitant, iffy*, indecisive, indefinite, irresolute, moot, on the fence*, open, pending, tentative, torn, uncertain, unclear, uncommitted, undetermined, unfinished, unsettled, unsure, up in the air, vague, wavering, wishy-washy*, betwixt and between, blowing hot and cold, dithering, hemming and hawing, in the middle, of two minds, pendent, running hot and cold, waffling |
| Antonyms: | certain, decided, definite, determined, settled, sure, undoubted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unsubstantiated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | questionable, unproven |
| Synonyms: | arguable, controversial, debatable, disputable, doubtful, dubious, fishy*, iffy*, indefinite, suspect, suspicious, uncertain, dubitable, hard to believe, open to doubt, open to question, unconfirmed, uncorroborated, unsupported |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | negotiable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | variable |
| Synonyms: | debatable, transferable, assignable, transactional |
| Main Entry: | up in the air |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very uncertain |
| Synonyms: | chancy, debatable, doubtful, iffy, pending, questionable, tentative, uncertain, undecided, undetermined, unfinished, unresolved, unsettled |
| Antonyms: | certain, finished, settled, resolved |
| Main Entry: | doubtful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | questionable, unclear |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, borderline, chancy, contingent, debatable, dicey, disreputable, dubious, equivocal, far-fetched, fat chance, fishy*, hazardous, hazy, iffy*, inconclusive, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, insecure, long shot*, obscure, open, pending, precarious, problematic, shady, sneaky*, speculative, suspect, suspicious, touch-and-go, touchy, uncertain, undecided, uneasy, unsettled, unstable, unsure, clouded, doubtable, dubitable, impugnable, on thin ice, unconfirmed, up for grabs |
| Antonyms: | certain, clear, confirmed, decided, definite, exact, settled, unquestionable, resolved |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dubious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doubtful |
| Synonyms: | arguable, chancy, debatable, diffident, disputable, equivocal, far-fetched, fishy*, fly-by-night*, hesitant, iffy*, improbable, indecisive, moot, open, perplexed, problematic, questionable, reluctant, shady, skeptical, suspect, suspicious, uncertain, unclear, undecided, undependable, unlikely, unreliable, unsure, untrustworthy, wavering, dubitable, mootable, touch and go, trustless, unassured, unconvinced, untrusty |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, doubtless, positive, reliable, sure, trustworthy, trusty, undoubtful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dubious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vague, unclear |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, debatable, disinclined, doubtful, equivocal, indefinite, indeterminate, obscure, open, problematic, undecided, unsettled, mistrustful, problematical |
| Antonyms: | certain, clear, definite, unambiguous, unobscure |
| Main Entry: | suspicious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doubtful, fishy |
| Synonyms: | borderline, debatable, different, disputable, doubtable, dubious, equivocal, farfetched, funny*, irregular, not kosher, open, open to doubt, open to question, out of line, overt, peculiar, phony, problematic, queer, questionable, reaching, rings untrue, shady, shaky*, suspect, too much*, uncertain, uncommon, unsure, unusual, won't wash |
| Antonyms: | believable, indubious, palpable, undoubted, unquestionable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unsettled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not decided, taken care of |
| Synonyms: | debatable, doubtful, dubious, due, immature, moot, open, outstanding, overdue, owing, payable, pending, problematic, uncertain, unclear, undecided, undetermined, unpaid, unresolved, betwixt and between, clouded, dubitable, in arrears, pendent, unfixed, up for grabs, waffling |
| Antonyms: | certain, decided, definite, settled, sure |
| Main Entry: | unanswered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective2 |
| Definition: | not refuted |
| Synonyms: | debatable, moot, open, uncertain, undecided, undetermined, unnoticed, unsettled, up in the air, disputed, in doubt, unchallenged, unquestioned, unrefuted |
| Antonyms: | certain, decided, determined, settled, answered |
| Main Entry: | open |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | undecided |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, arguable, controversial, debatable, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, indecisive, moot, problematic, questionable, uncertain, unresolved, unsettled, up in the air, dubitable, in question, up for discussion, yet to be decided |
| Antonyms: | certain, decided, definite, sure |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | rationale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Aristotelian, analytical, argumentative, attributable, attributed, automorphic, biconditional, cogent, cognitive, coherent, controversial, controvertible, cumulative, cut-and-dried, debatable, definitive, derivable from, dialectic, dianoetic, didactic, discursive, discursory, disputatious, due to, epistemic, esemplastic, eudemonistic, facultative, forensic, hebamic, implausible, irrelevant, logical, lucid, moot, noetic, owing to, paralogic, perspicacious, perspicuous, polemical, putative, rational, rationalistic, reasoning, referable, referrible, relevant, specious, synthetic, tenable, thought-out, unilateral, viable, watertight, well-founded, well-grounded, well-taken
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