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debatable | debating |

As an adjective debatable

is controversial. Not fully proved, open to debate, sometimes used humorously.

As a verb debating is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun debating is

the act of taking part in a debate.

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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    debating

    English

    (wikipedia debating)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of taking part in a debate.
  • * (William Cobbett)
    • As to the debatings , the mind of every man in the country was made up, long before, very long indeed before those debatings began