Debatable vs Uncertain - What's the difference?
debatable | uncertain | Related terms |
Controversial. Not fully proved, open to debate, sometimes used humorously.
Of a person, argumentative.
A fitting subject for debate.
Not certain; unsure.
*(John Tillotson) (1630-1694)
*:Man, without the protection of a superior Being,is uncertain of everything that he hopes for.
Not known for certain; questionable.
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Not yet determined; undecided.
Variable and subject to change.
Fitful or unsteady.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
Unpredictable or capricious.
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:O woman! in our hours of ease, / Uncertain , coy, and hard to please!
Debatable is a related term of uncertain.
As adjectives the difference between debatable and uncertain
is that debatable is controversial not fully proved, open to debate, sometimes used humorously while uncertain is not certain; unsure.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.