Synonyms for questionable
- adjective
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Refutable
refutable, confutative, confutable formal dated
2. Dubious — problematic; open to doubt or challenge
dubious, debatable, suspicious, doubtful, problematic, equivocal, uncertain, shady, iffy, problematical, fishy, disputable, unethical, ambiguous, immoral, in question, suspect, sleazy, moot, apocryphal, ungodly, queer
Definitions
- adj. 1
Problematic; open to doubt or challenge.
It is questionable if the universe is open or closed.
- adj. 2
Of dubious respectability or morality.
Related words
- Word family
- questionably
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Questionable may be used nearly in the sense either of dubious or of doubtful; a questionable statement is one that must be proved before it can be accepted. To say that one's honesty is questionable is a mild way of saying that in the opinion of the speaker he is likely to prove dishonest.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- dubious He also brought out one more dubious conclusion.
- debatable It's debatable whether what Tom did was wrong or not.
- alleged That man is alleged to have committed the murder.
By length
- 4 letters
- moot1, iffy2
- 5 letters
- queer1, shady2, fishy2
- 6 letters
- sleazy2
- 7 letters
- suspect2, alleged2, dubious3, immoral3, ungodly3
- 8 letters
- doubtful2, deniable
- 9 letters
- uncertain3, ambiguous4, unethical4, debatable4, equivocal4, refutable
- 10 letters
- suspicious3, apocryphal4, disputable4, confutable
- 11 letters
- problematic4, confutative
- 13 letters
- problematical5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (iffy2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- questionnable
- Deutsch
- fragwürdig