Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being understood through study and observation; comprehensible.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being submitted to scrutiny; discoverable by scrutiny, inquiry, or critical examination.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Discoverable by scrutiny, inquiry, or critical examination.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective informal
understandable ,comprehensible
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Among the stories he told was an only partly scrutable tale tracing the roots of a favorite song to Billie Holiday , Cary Grant and a bowl of oatmeal allegedly made to levitate and assume new form as a moon.
Singing Saw's Christmastime Tour Andy Battaglia 2011
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Manga doesn't "necessarily make Japan more 'scrutable,' but it definitely takes the lid off many otherwise opaque aspects of its society."
Reading Japan 2010
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What remains less scrutable is how to provide nonvirtual services.
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Does the "his not necessarily scrutable" refer to Podium Dudes?
Going by the Book: Signs from Above BikeSnobNYC 2010
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What remains less scrutable is how to provide nonvirtual services.
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"Traditionally, it's been a place where each neighborhood has a strong character with its own behavioral code that his not necessarily scrutable to or convenient for the sojourner"
Going by the Book: Signs from Above BikeSnobNYC 2010
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Traditionally, it's been a place where each neighborhood has a strong character with its own behavioral code that is not necessarily scrutable to or convenient for the sojourner, and where he or she might be expected to behave deferentially or at least respectfully while visiting.
Going by the Book: Signs from Above BikeSnobNYC 2010
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He goes at Craig, "Can you point to anything that [Kagan] has said or written," that would render he beliefs on key Constitutional issues scrutable?
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Traditionally, it's been a place where each neighborhood has a strong character with its own behavioral code that is not necessarily scrutable to or convenient for the sojourner, and where he or she might be expected to behave deferentially or at least respectfully while visiting.
Archive 2010-02-01 BikeSnobNYC 2010
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If we were to choose a single governmental function which ought to remain in the public realm -- neutrally rendered and readily scrutable -- it would surely be that upon which all other government functions, and a government's very legitimacy, are predicated: The administration of elections.
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