Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being or liable to be ascribed, imputed, or attributed; ascribable; imputable: as, the fault is not attributable to the author.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
attributed . - adjective Allowed to be attributed.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being attributed
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word attributable.
Examples
-
He finds “misuse of the offending term attributable to spurious erudition on the part of the writers combined with scientific illiteracy on the part of copy editors.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
-
He finds “misuse of the offending term attributable to spurious erudition on the part of the writers combined with scientific illiteracy on the part of copy editors.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
-
Earnings per share -- the figure closely watched by analysts -- are also based on the "attributable" number.
-
The law says that the federal government now will get 100 percent of the rebate funding "attributable" to the increase from 15.1 to 23.1 percent.
-
The law says that the federal government now will get 100 percent of the rebate funding "attributable" to the increase from 15.1 to 23.1 percent.
-
We suspect that this trend too is mostly attributable to generational processes of cohort replacement, but since the Gallup data on year of birth are not publicly available, we cannot confirm that suspicion.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
-
In short, the pattern in Figure 5.4 is unlikely to be attributable to selection bias, though the exact level of intermarriage may be slightly underestimated in the historical data.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
-
Robert Wuthnow, After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007, argues that nearly all the decline in church attendance and the rise in nones among young adults is attributable to delays in marriage.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
-
However, with rising American influence in so many sectors—this itself attributable in no little measure to the advent of the telephone—hello would become a global word for greetings between speakers who shared no common language.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
-
Since these figures hold constant other demographic predictors of volunteering, the differences in secular volunteering attributable to religiosity are truly remarkable.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.