Commentable
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 About which one can comment.
"The author presents a formal apparatus, which, based on the predicate calculus, should serve the purposes of the description of information contained in the sentence, and points out how individual parts of an utterance are commentable."
- 2 Allowing interested parties or stakeholders to make official comments; inviting feedback through comments.
"Moreover, the timing of the report's release by the study group—December 6, 2006—meant that the Institute's commentable version went online precariously close to the holidays. And even worse, by the time the commentable version was released, the Bush administration had already dismissed the report, making discussion of its proposals a significantly less compelling exercise."
- 3 Worthy of comment; remarkable. dated
"Within a very short period since its establishment, the Corporation has made commentable profits."
- 4 Capable of being marked with a comment.
"From that moment on, any class in our system can have comments attached to it (which would make it commentable), without needing to alter the database schema or the Comment model itself."
Synonyms
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More examples"The author presents a formal apparatus, which, based on the predicate calculus, should serve the purposes of the description of information contained in the sentence, and points out how individual parts of an utterance are commentable."
Etymology
From comment + -able.
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