Ascribable

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Able to be ascribed.

    "A death, a drought ascribable to the sorcery of a weathermaker, a cyclone and so forth could always excite the natives to acts of revenge, and consequently no man could leave his district unarmed […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    capable of being assigned or credited to wordnet

Synonyms

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attributableaccountableallegedassignableattributedcharged

Example

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"Is his failure ascribable to incompetence or to bad luck?"

Etymology

From ascribe + -able.

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