[ques.tion.able] adj (1590) 1 obs: inviting inquiry
2. obs: liable to judicial inquiry or action
3: affording reason for being doubted, questioned, or challenged: not certain or exact: problematic "milk of ~ purity" "a ~ decision"
4: attended by well-grounded suspicions of being immoral, crude, false, or unsound: dubious "~ motives" syn see doubtful -- ques.tion.able.ness n -- ques.tion.ably adv