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Debatable vs Controversal - What's the difference?

debatable | controversal |

As adjectives the difference between debatable and controversal

is that debatable is controversial not fully proved, open to debate, sometimes used humorously while controversal is (obsolete|rare) facing opposite directions.

debatable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Controversial. Not fully proved, open to debate, sometimes used humorously.
    • Those data are debatable , no one has been able to replicate them.
    It's debatable whether he is a stud.
  • Of a person, argumentative.
    • That debatable individual.
  • A fitting subject for debate.
    • The lack of bonuses isn't debatable.

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    controversal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete, rare) Facing opposite directions.
  • * 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
    • The temple of Janus'' with his two ''controversal faces might now not unsignificantly be set open.
  • (obsolete) Subject to controversy; controversial.