checkable

check·able

adj

Definition of CHECKABLE

1

: capable of being checked <a checkable story>

2

: held in or being a bank account on which checks can be drawn <checkable deposits>

Examples of CHECKABLE

1. <all of the statistics cited by the news reporter are readily checkable, but it would appear that the article was never fact-checked before publication>

First Known Use of CHECKABLE

1877

Related to CHECKABLE

Synonyms: verifiable, confirmable, demonstrable, empirical (also empiric), provable, supportable, sustainable

Antonyms: indemonstrable, insupportable, unprovable, unsupportable, unsustainable, unverifiable

Related Words: certifiable, documentable, well-founded; defensible, excusable, justifiable, vindicable, warrantable; alleged, assumed, conjectured, guessed, presumed, surmised, suspected

Near Antonyms: debatable, disprovable, disputable, refutable

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