verifiable en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈvɛɹ.əˌfaɪ.ə.bəl/ (Canada, General-American)
- /ˌvɛɹ.əˈfaɪ.ə.bəl/ (Canada, General-American)
- /vɛɹ.ɪˈfaɪ.ə.bəl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (California) audio
- [ˈvɛɹˌfaɪ.ə.bɫ̩] (Canada, General-American)
- [ˌvɛɹˈfaɪ.ə.bɫ̩] (Canada, General-American)
- /ˈvɛɹ.ɪ.faɪ.ə.bəl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
Etymology tree English verify Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English verifiable From verify + -able.
Meanings
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Able to be verified or confirmed.
Do you have verifiable evidence to support that claim?
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: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:
- Able to be qualified by a Boolean expression.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more verifiable | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most verifiable | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
verifiably · unverifiable · verifiableness · nonverifiable
Translations (12)
de verifizierbar (able to be verified or confirmed) · fr vérifiable (able to be verified or confirmed) · hu ellenőrizhető (able to be verified or confirmed) · bg проверим (able to be verified or confirmed) · de überprüfbar (able to be verified or confirmed) · ca comprovable (able to be verified or confirmed) · it comprovabile (able to be verified or confirmed) · es verificable (able to be verified or confirmed) · cs ověřitelný (able to be verified or confirmed) · it verificabile (able to be verified or confirmed) · cs verifikovatelný (able to be verified or confirmed) · ca verificable (able to be verified or confirmed)