Ascribable
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Ascribable is an adjective meaning Able to be ascribed.
Meaning
Able to be ascribed.
Example Sentences
A death, a drought ascribable to the sorcery of a weathermaker, a cyclone and so forth could always excite the natives to acts of revenge, and consequently no man could leave his district unarmed […]
The Soviet Union apparently took the U.S.— Japanese political-military alliance quite seriously—probably more seriously than we might imagine. The Soviet Union’s reluctance to return the Northern Territories to Japan, even at the expense of the bilateral relationship, is ascribable to the global confrontation between the USSR and the United States.
Synonyms for ascribable
Depending on context, synonyms include imputable, referable.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include attributable, imputable, referable, chargeable, creditable, assignable.
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