English Dictionary

oppugnable

IPA（発音記号）

/ɘˈpʌɡnəb(ɘ)l/

形容詞

廃用 稀用

(obsolete, rare) Disputable, contestable, refutable, capable of being oppugned. / (obsolete, rare) Curable, amenable to medical treatment. / (obsolete, rare) Assailable, exposed to enemy's attack.

日本語の意味

議論可能な、反論可能な、論争の余地がある / 医療的治療が可能な、治療に応じることができる / 攻撃されやすい、攻撃を受けやすい

Although her argument was eloquent, several of its premises remained oppugnable under close scrutiny.

彼女の議論は雄弁だったが、いくつかの前提は綿密に検討すると反論可能なままだった。

意味（1）

(obsolete, rare) Disputable, contestable, refutable, capable of being oppugned.

Judicious Reader, THOU may'st (peradventure) no less wonder at the strangeness of the Paradox, than at the publication hereof in an English Dialect, and the rather because it is no vulgar Theme …: Yet, by the way, let me advise thee to suspend thy censures, (which at first view, 'tis probable, thou may'st be subject to entertain,) as supposing the Doctrine herein asserted more easily oppugnable than indeed it is) till thou hast passed a serious examination on all the particulars herein insisted upon: For Aliquando mens cogitat quæ ratio non probat.

意味（2）

(obsolete, rare) Curable, amenable to medical treatment.

Consult, on the other hand, the advocates for cold bathing, Floyer and Baynard, for instance, should implicit credit be given to their panegyricks, there are few diseases which are not oppugnable by immersion in cold water.

意味（3）

(obsolete, rare) Assailable, exposed to enemy's attack.

A redoubt and battery at Hellgate were destined to prevent the passage of the enemy's ships to and fro in the Sound. Similar works were contemplated on the North River, and the oppugnable portions of the town were reformed and strengthened.

more oppugnable （ comparative ）

most oppugnable （ superlative ）