Debatable vs Notorious - What's the difference?
debatable | notorious |
Controversial. Not fully proved, open to debate, sometimes used humorously.
Of a person, argumentative.
A fitting subject for debate.
Widely known, especially for something bad; infamous.
* 1920 , "This is the last straw. In your infatuation for this man — a man who is notorious for his excesses, a man your father would not have allowed to so much as mention your name — you have reflected the demi-monde]] rather than the circles in which you have presumably grown up." — by [[w:F. Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald
* 1999', ''"The Hempshocks' sheep were '''notoriously the finest for miles around: shaggy-coated and intelligent (for sheep), with curling horns and sharp hooves."'' — Neil Gaiman, ''Stardust , pg. 30 (2001 Perennial edition)
As adjectives the difference between debatable and notorious
is that debatable is controversial not fully proved, open to debate, sometimes used humorously while notorious is widely known, especially for something bad; infamous.debatable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Those data are debatable , no one has been able to replicate them.
- It's debatable whether he is a stud.
- That debatable individual.
- The lack of bonuses isn't debatable.
