imputable

From impute +‎ -able.

imputable

1. 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.

2. (law) Accusable; culpable; chargeable with fault.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “imputable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “imputable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From imputer +‎ -able.

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imputable (plural imputables)

1. imputable, attributable, ascribable, chargeable

• “imputable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /impuˈtable/ [ĩm.puˈt̪a.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: im‧pu‧ta‧ble

imputable m or f (masculine and feminine plural imputables)

1. attributable; imputable

• “imputable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024