Dictionary

contestable en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English contest Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English contestable From contest + -able.

Meanings

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.
   • 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:

Forms

Deriveds

noncontestable · uncontestable · incontestable · contestably

Translations (9)

fr contestable (that can be contested) · it oppugnabile (that can be contested) · sh спо̑ран (that can be contested) · fi esteellinen (that can be contested) · ro contestabil (that can be contested) · sh spȏran (that can be contested) · it contendibile (that can be contested) · gv yn-arganey (that can be contested) · it contrastabile (that can be contested)