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researchable

researchable

3.7
A topic that has enough information to be studied carefully
  • adjective
  • /rɪˈsɜːrʧəbl/
translation icon : investigable
  • Content is easily researchable and retrievable.
  • researchable question

Examples

  • There are many researchable articles on people moving out of California and businesses leaving California, and it is still going on today.

    Blog text (2)
  • Regardless of the topic, the genesis of all research is with solid, researchable, authentic questions.

    Academic text (2014)
  • It's a problem that we had to spend a year kind of turning into a researchable question.

  • We learned how to pose researchable questions and write proposals.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Assist parties in translating general questions into researchable questions.

    Academic text (2007)
  • An interesting and possibly researchable question raised by Kurfman is the effect of failing to include social studies in testing batteries.

    Academic text (1990)
  • More importantly, several intriguing (and possibly researchable) questions flow from these findings.

    Academic text (1990)
  • The modern world is a world of researchable consequences; it's about what works and doesn't work, not about non-critically examined personal philosophies of teaching.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Many state-level legislators have a "day job," and what they do is usually public knowledge or easily researchable, especially if they maintain a webpage with biographical information.

    Academic text (2007)
  • We learned how to formulate clear and researchable questions for our project.

Synonyms

analyzable
vsresearchable
  • US
1 4.2

You can study it by separating it into parts

is approached through planned research rather than mainly by dividing parts
explorable
vsresearchable
1 4.1

A place or thing you can look around and discover

is examined through formal research methods rather than casual searching
investigable
vsresearchable
5.2

Can be examined or checked

is studied using formal research methods rather than by general inspection

Surface Forms

researchable positive

Morphology

researchable = research (transparent) = research + able

Productive adjective formation from the verb 'research' with the suffix '-able', meaning 'able to be researched'.

Etymology

Researchable comes from research, which is made of re- and search, where re- suggests 'again' and search means 'look for'. So to research is to 'look for information carefully', and researchable means something can be 'looked into' or 'studied'.