verifiable

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UK/vɛɹ.ɪˈfaɪ.ə.bəl/UK/ˈvɛɹ.ɪ.faɪ.ə.bəl/Canada, US/ˌvɛɹ.əˈfaɪ.ə.bəl/Canada, US[ˌvɛɹˈfaɪ.ə.bɫ̩]

adjective

Able to be verified or confirmed.

“Do you have verifiable evidence to support that claim?”

Opposite
Less commonScrabble 18

Meanings

adjectiveverifiable (comparative more verifiable, superlative most verifiable)

comparative more verifiable · superlative most verifiable

  1. Able to be verified or confirmed.

    Do you have verifiable evidence to support that claim?

    2 more examples

    Sometimes these sagas and anecdotes are touched with ribaldry, or with excessive obscenity, according to the times, and sometimes they are rooted in obscure but still verifiable deistic concepts.

    1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 88

    But the post-truthism that the new autocrats are so apt at employing goes far beyond fibbing: it denies the existence of a verifiable reality. Post-truthism is not chiefly about getting lies accepted as truths but about muddying the waters to the point that it becomes difficult to discern the difference between truth and falsehood.

    2022 February 22, Moisés Naím, “The Dictator's New Playbook”, in Foreign Affairs
  2. Able to be qualified by a Boolean expression.
nounverifiable (plural verifiables)

plural verifiables

  1. human sciencesA statement or observation that can be verified.

Synonyms & antonyms

Opposite

adjectivecapable of being verified

adjectivecapable of being tested (verified or falsified) by experiment or observation

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Bulgarian проверим
  • проверим (proverim)able to be verified or confirmed
Catalan verificable, comprovable
  • verificableable to be verified or confirmed
  • comprovableable to be verified or confirmed
Czech ověřitelný, verifikovatelný
  • ověřitelnýable to be verified or confirmed
  • verifikovatelnýable to be verified or confirmed
French vérifiable
  • vérifiableable to be verified or confirmed
German verifizierbar, überprüfbar
  • verifizierbarable to be verified or confirmed
  • überprüfbarable to be verified or confirmed
Hungarian ellenőrizhető
  • ellenőrizhetőable to be verified or confirmed
Italian verificabile, comprovabile
  • verificabileable to be verified or confirmed
  • comprovabileable to be verified or confirmed
Spanish verificable
  • verificableable to be verified or confirmed
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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