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referable
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective referable has 1 sense
- referable(s = adj.all) ascribable, due, imputable - capable of being assigned or credited to; "punctuation errors ascribable to careless proofreading"; "the cancellation of the concert was due to the rain"; "the oversight was not imputable to him"
CIDE DICTIONARY
referable, a.
Capable of being referred, or considered in relation to something else; assignable; ascribable. [1913 Webster]
"It is a question among philosophers, whether all the attractions which obtain between bodies are referable to one general cause."
[1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
referable
accountable, affinitive, alleged, appertaining, ascribable, assignable, associative, attributable, attributed, charged, comparable, comparative, congenial, connective, correlative, credited, derivable from, derivational, derivative, due, en rapport, explicable, imputable, imputed, linking, owing, pertaining, pertinent, proportionable, proportional, proportionate, putative, referred to, referring, relating, relational, relative, sympathetic, traceable
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