Debatable(a.) Liable to be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; open to question or dispute; as, a debatable question.
Debate(v. i.) To engage in strife or combat; to fight.
Debate(v. i.) To contend in words; to dispute; hence, to deliberate; to consider; to discuss or examine different arguments in the mind; -- often followed by on or upon.
Debate(v. t.) A fight or fighting; contest; strife.
Debate(v. t.) Contention in words or arguments; discussion for the purpose of elucidating truth or influencing action; strife in argument; controversy; as, the debates in Parliament or in Congress.
Debate(v. t.) Subject of discussion.
Debate(v. t.) To engage in combat for; to strive for.
Debate(v. t.) To contend for in words or arguments; to strive to maintain by reasoning; to dispute; to contest; to discuss; to argue for and against.
Debated(imp. & p. p.) of Debate
Debateful(a.) Full of contention; contentious; quarrelsome.
Debatefully(adv.) With contention.
Debatement(n.) Controversy; deliberation; debate.
Debater(n.) One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist.
Debating(n.) The act of discussing or arguing; discussion.
Debating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Debate
Debatingly(adv.) In the manner of a debate.
Words within debatement