Judgable

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Capable of being assessed or evaluated according to established standards or criteria
2. Able to be judged or appraised based on specific guidelines or frameworks
3. Permitting an assessment or determination of value or quality within defined parameters

Etymology: "Judgable" is an alternative spelling of "judgeable," and the word is a plain combination of two parts: "judge," which came into English from Old French "jugier" (ultimately from Latin "iudicare," to pronounce judgment), and the suffix "-able," which turns a verb into an adjective meaning "capable of being" the action named. A thing that is judgeable is therefore one that can be judged, which is exactly the sense the definition gives: something open to assessment against stated criteria. The adjective appeared in Middle English as "jugeable," so it is older than the modern spelling and has been part of the language for several centuries. Its form followed the same pattern as many other English words built from a verb and "-able," such as "readable" and "washable," where the suffix has long been attached to native and borrowed verbs alike.

Synonyms: assessable, evaluatable, measurable, decidable, determinable

Antonyms: injudgable, unevaluable, indecidable, unassessable, immeasurable