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creditable

adj
/ˈkɹɛdɪtəbəl/

Etymology

From credit + -able.

  1. derived from crēditum
  2. borrowed from crédit
  3. suffixed as creditable — “credit + able”

Definitions

  1. Credible or believable.

    • Before receiving his testimony, the officer is required to ascertain from his own knowledge or by a creditable witness that he is a subscribing witness to the deed.
    • A more creditable rumour concerned Valentino's hallmark killer glance ...

  2. That brings credit or honour

    That brings credit or honour; respectable.

    • The locomotive had been magnificently burnished at Norwich depot, with polished brasswork and red-painted coupling rods—all the more creditable, Dr. Allen adds, as it spent many months last winter in open store.

  3. That can be assigned

    That can be assigned; assignable.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at creditable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at creditable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at creditable

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA