referable
Able to assign
Referable means capable of being referred or attributed to something else.
If a symptom is referable to a particular condition, it can be traced back to or associated with that cause.
The pain was referable to her earlier injury.
The word appears most often in medical and academic contexts where establishing connections between effects and their sources matters.
Some speakers prefer the variant referrable, with doubled r.
Directly related to something
- germaneRelated to the topic
- relevantApplying to the topic
- relatedConnected by blood or nature
- connectedJoined to another
appropriate · fitting · suitable · material · apposite · bearing · corresponding · linked
Mention of a source
- footnoteCitation at page bottom
- bibliographyList of cited works
- sourcePoint of origin
- quotationCited passage or price
documentation · evidence · precedent · attribution · endnote · annotation · scholarly · verifiable
pertinent
Directly related to something
connected · appropriate · fitting · suitable · material · apposite · bearing · corresponding · linked · associated
citation
Mention of a source
- footnoteCitation at page bottom
- bibliographyList of cited works
- sourcePoint of origin
quotation · documentation · evidence · precedent · attribution · endnote · annotation · scholarly · verifiable · traceable
referableunattributable
Cannot be assigned origin
untraceable · inexplicable · sourceless · unassignable · causeless
referableself-contained
Whole without external parts
autonomous · self-explanatory · independent · intrinsic · inherent
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