certifiable
English
Adjective
certifiable (comparative more certifiable, superlative most certifiable)
- (of a document) That can, or that must be certified.
- (informal, of a person) Mentally ill to such an extent that involuntary institutionalization is appropriate; crazy.
- 2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, page 311:
- If any person said to you in 1950 that in seventeen years Miss Stalin would defect to the West, you would rightly have considered that person certifiable. She has now done it, with impressive smoothness and conviction.
Derived terms
Translations
that can or must be certified
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References
- “certifiable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “certifiable”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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