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certifiable

adjective more certifiable · most certifiable

of a document That can or must be certified.
informal, of a person Mentally ill to such an extent that involuntary institutionalization is appropriate; crazy. If any person said to you in 1950 that in seventeen years Miss Stalin would defect to the West, you would rightly have considered that person certifiable. She has now done it, with impressive smoothness and conviction.
Similar: insane, mad, nuts

noun certifiables

informal A crazy person. Forget the certifiables who are scrawling Hitler mustaches on pictures of the president.

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adj that can or must be certified

Español	certificable
Italiano	attestabile, certificabile, constatabile

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@misc{certifiable_2026,
  title = {certifiable},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/certifiable},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}