demonstrable
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From Middle English demonstrable, from Old French.
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demonstrable (comparative more demonstrable, superlative most demonstrable)
- Able to be demonstrated.
- It is easily demonstrable that water extinguishes fire.
- 2023 April 5, “Network News: Conservatives accused of "rewarding Avanti's failure"”, in RAIL, number 980, page 6:
- Responding, Transport Secretary Mark Harper accused Haigh and Labour of making "unfunded promises of £62 billion of rail spending with no demonstrable means to pay for them".
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able to be demonstrated
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demonstrable (plural demonstrables)
- Something that can be demonstrated.
- 1949, The Termination Report of the National War Labor Board:
- We deal here with imponderables rather than demonstrables.