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English
Etymology
impute + -able
Adjective
imputable
- That may be imputed
- Synonyms: chargeable, ascribable, attributable, referable
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 8, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:No one having previously heard his history, could for the first time behold Father Mapple without the utmost interest, because there were certain engrafted clerical peculiarities about him, imputable to that adventurous maritime life he had led.
- (law) Accusable; culpable; chargeable with fault.
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- “imputable”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “imputable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French
Etymology
From imputer + -able.
Pronunciation
Adjective
imputable (plural imputables)
- imputable, attributable, ascribable, chargeable
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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /impuˈtable/
- Rhymes: -able
- Syllabification: im‧pu‧ta‧ble
Adjective
imputable m or f (masculine and feminine plural imputables)
- attributable; imputable
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