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Supposable

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. That can be supposed or conjectured: a supposable outcome.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Capable of being supposed; imaginable.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Capable of being supposed, or imagined to exist.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Capable of being supposed; involving no absurdity, and not meaningless.

Sufficiently probable to be admitted problematically.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. capable of being inferred on slight grounds

Word Usage

"For example if it makes no difference whether we say that the supposable is not the genus of the opinable or that the opinable is not identical with a particular kind of supposable (for what is meant is the same in both statements), it is better to take as the terms the supposable and the opinable in preference to the phrase suggested."

Equivalent

thinkable

Same Context

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