Certified vs Certifiable - What's the difference?
certified | certifiable |
(certify)
to attest to as the truth or meeting a standard
(of a document) That can, or that must be certified.
(informal, of a person) Mentally ill to such an extent that involuntary institutionalization is appropriate; crazy.
(informal) A crazy person.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 22, author=Bob Herbert, title=Voices of Anxiety, work=New York Times
, passage=Forget the certifiables who are scrawling Hitler mustaches on pictures of the president. }}
As a verb certified
is past tense of certify.As an adjective certifiable is
that can, or that must be certified.As a noun certifiable is
a crazy person.certified
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(head)Anagrams
*certify
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Verb
Synonyms
* (to attest as to) attest, witness, vouch for, approve, confirmDerived terms
* certifiable * decertifyAnagrams
*certifiable
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Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (mentally ill): insane, mad, nutsDerived terms
* certifiablyNoun
(en noun)citation