defeasible

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: de=fea=si=ble

OXFORD DICTIONARY

defeasible, adj.
1 capable of annulment.
2 liable to forfeiture.

Derivative

defeasibility n. defeasibly adv.

Etymology

AF (as DEFEASANCE)

ROGET THESAURUS

defeasible

Confutation

N confutation, refutation, answer, complete answer, disproof, conviction, redargution, invalidation, exposure, exposition, clincher, retort, reductio ad absurdum, knock down argument, tu quoque argument, sockdolager, correction, dissuasion, confuting, confuted capable of refutation, refutable, confutable, defeasible, contravene (counter evidence), condemned on one's own showing, condemned out of one's own mouth, the argument falls to the ground, cadit quaestio, it does not hold water, suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo, his argument was demolished by new evidence.