contestable

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adjective

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.”

UncommonScrabble 15

Meanings

adjectivecontestable (comparative more contestable, superlative most contestable)

comparative more contestable · superlative most contestable

  1. 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
APA

contestable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/contestable

MLA

“contestable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/contestable. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

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

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