Meanings
comparative more contestable · superlative most contestable
- That can be contested; debatable.
Some said he was the greatest of his time but with the amount of talent around that view was contestable.
1 more example
LLMs generate text using opaque algorithms that even their designers struggle to control. Wikilambda makes every part of every algorithm available to anyone. In short, Wikilambda is contestable. If you ask an LLM to generate an article on a topic, the only way to contest its algorithm is to click 👍 or 👎. If you are unhappy with an article generated by Abstract Wikipedia, you will be able to: change the “abstract” content in Wikidata; change the algorithms that construct or render the article in Wikifunctions; or sever the connection between the article and Abstract Wikipedia, and edit the article the old-fashioned way in Wikipedia.
2026, Michael Falk, “Wikilambda the ultimate: the Wikimedia foundation’s search for the perfect language”, in AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication, →DOI
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivecapable of being contested
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Finnish esteellinen
- esteellinenthat can be contested
French contestable
- contestablethat can be contested
Italian contrastabile, oppugnabile
- contrastabilethat can be contested
- oppugnabilethat can be contested
- contendibilethat can be contested
Romanian contestabil
- contestabilthat can be contested
Cite this entry
contestable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/contestable
“contestable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/contestable. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “contestable,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/contestable.
Source: contestable on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.