commentable

English

Etymology

From comment +‎ -able.

Adjective

commentable (comparative more commentable, superlative most commentable)

1. About which one can comment.
   • 1974, Philologica Pragensia - Volumes 17-19, page 109:

     The author presents a formal apparatus, which, based on the predicate calculus, should serve the purposes of the description of information contained in the sentence, and points out how individual parts of an utterance are commentable.

   • 2019, Sylvie Leleu-Merviel, Daniel Schmitt, Philippe Useille, From UXD to LivXD: Living eXperience Design, page 18:

     According to Theureau (2006, p. 48): "The course of experience is the construction of meaning for the actor of his activity as it unfolds, or the history of the actor's pre-reflective consciousness, or the history of this 'showable, tellable and commentable' that accompanies his activity at every moment".

2. Allowing interested parties or stakeholders to make official comments; inviting feedback through comments.
   • 2011, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, page 113:

     Moreover, the timing of the report's release by the study group—December 6, 2006—meant that the Institute's commentable version went online precariously close to the holidays. And even worse, by the time the commentable version was released, the Bush administration had already dismissed the report, making discussion of its proposals a significantly less compelling exercise.

   • 2012, Cynthia Farina, Josiah Heidt, Mary Newhart, Joan-Josep Vallbe/, “RegulationRoom: Field-Testing an Online Public Participation Platform During USA Agency Rulemakings”, in Mila Gascó, editor, ECEG2012-Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on on e-Government, page 213:

     Indexing: all the issue post topics are visible and accessible from a navigational index; within each post, every commentable section has a title, all of which are visible and accessible from an index at the top of the post.

   • 2015, D. Berry, M. Dieter, Postdigital Aesthetics: Art, Computation And Design, page 248:

     As whe wears a camera on her body, all aspects of Mae's social life then bedome capture and quantified in order to become 'commentable' and 'likeable' by a growing audience of 'followers', while ingested sensors track her body metrics.

3. (dated) Worthy of comment; remarkable.

   Synonym: commentworthy

   • 1969, Nepal Press Report - Issues 1-99, page 5:

     Within a very short period since its establishment, the Corporation has made commentable profits.

   • 1995, D. Chorafas, Financial Models and Simulation, page 307:

     The code book which gives life to the financial statements is the domain where expert systems can offer most commentable results.

   • 2007, Ian Hutchby, The Discourse of Child Counselling, page 92:

     Newsmarkers, on the other hand, specifically flag up that something of note, some new information, something 'commentable' has been identified in the other person's talk.

4. (computing) Capable of being marked with a comment.
   • 2017, Obie Fernandez, The Rails 5 Way:

     From that moment on, any class in our system can have comments attached to it (which would make it commentable), without needing to alter the database schema or the Comment model itself.

Derived terms

• uncommentable

 

See also

• commendable (not to be confused)