questionable

questionable
adj
1. debatable, controversial, polemical, in dispute; subject to discussion, moot, open to question, in question, problematic, problematical, hard to believe, open to doubt, doubtful, dubious, dubitable; uncertain, unsure, unsettled, undecided, borderline; tentative, undetermined, contingent, provisional; discussible, disputable, contestable, arguable, controvertible.
2. ambiguous, equivocal, Logic. amphibolous, paradoxical, duplicitous, ironic; two-edged, ambivalent, multi-leveled, figurative, suggestive, symbolic; misleading, left-handed, roundabout, circuitous, ambagious, hedging, weasel-worded; untrustworthy, unreliable, suspicious, Inf. fishy, Inf. shady.
3. obscure, abstruse, veiled, indefinite, vague, unintelligible, incomprehensible; puzzling, mystifying, mysterious, enigmatic, enigmatical, confusing, perplexing; cryptic, delphic, oracular.

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