challengeable

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adjective

Able to be challenged or disputed.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

adjectivechallengeable (comparative more challengeable, superlative most challengeable)

comparative more challengeable · superlative most challengeable · alternative challengable

  1. Able to be challenged or disputed.

    It follows, Justice Ginsburg wrote, that “if a defendant is tried before a qualified jury composed of individuals not challengeable for cause, the loss of a peremptory challenge due to a state court’s good-faith error is not a matter of federal constitutional concern.”

    2009 April 1, Adam Liptak, “Justices Limit the Reach of Apology to Hawaiians”, in New York Times

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivecapable of being challenged

Also see

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Middle Englishchalengeable
  2. Englishchallengeable

From Middle English chalengeable; equivalent to challenge + -able.

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “challengeable,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/challengeable.

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