adjective
- capable of being certified.
- legally committable to a mental institution.
- Sometimes Facetious. fit or ready for an insane asylum.
- uncontrollable; insane: a certifiable desire.
adjective
- capable of being certified
- fit to be certified as insane
1846, from certify + -able. Meaning “so deranged as to be certifiably insane” is recorded from 1912.
adj.
- That can or must be certified. Used of infectious, industrial, and other diseases that are required by law to be reported to health authorities.
- Relating to or being a person showing disordered behavior of sufficient gravity to justify involuntary mental hospitalization.