Meanings
comparative more convertible · superlative most convertible
- Able to be converted
- Able to be exchanged, one for the other, especially
As if, in truth, there were no God of Labour; as if godlike Labour and brutal Mammonism were convertible terms.
1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. VI, Two Centuries”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker) - hobbiesAble to be exchanged for foreign currency.
Seven months ago Prime Minister Ante Marković, a Croat, attacked Yugoslavia's 2,600 percent inflation rate by making the dinar convertible to Western currencies and lopping off four zeroes.
1990 August, Kenneth C. Danforth, “Yugoslavia: A House Much Divided”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 110
plural convertibles
- datedin pluralInterchangeable things or terms.
- businessA convertible security: a stock, bond, etc. that can be turned into another (usually common stock) under certain set terms.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA convertible car: a car with a removable or foldable roof able to convert from a closed to open vehicle and back again.
able to be exchanged
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivecapable of being exchanged for or replaced by something of equal value
adjectivedesigned to be changed from one use or form to another
adjectivecapable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy
nouna corporate security (usually bonds or preferred stock) that can be exchanged for another form of security (usually common stock)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinconvertere“to turn back, to turn over, to turn around, to turn upside down”
- Late Latinconvertibilis“interchangeable”
- Old Frenchconvertible
- Englishconvertible
From Old French convertible, from Late Latin convertibilis (“interchangeable”), from Latin convertere (“to turn back, to turn over, to turn around, to turn upside down”), from con- (“with, together”) + vertere (“to turn”), + -ibilis (“-ible: able to”). Equivalent to convert + -ible.
More words from Old French, Late Latin, Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic حَنْطُور
- حَنْطُور (ḥanṭūr)car whose roof can be removed or folded
Bulgarian обратим, конвертируем
- обратим (obratim)able to be converted
- конвертируем (konvertiruem)able to be converted
- кабрио (kabrio)car whose roof can be removed or folded
Catalan convertible, descapotable
- convertibleable to be converted
- descapotablecar whose roof can be removed or folded
- convertiblecar whose roof can be removed or folded
Chinese Cantonese 敞篷車 /敞篷车
- 敞篷車 /敞篷车 (cong² pung⁴ ce¹)car whose roof can be removed or folded
Chinese Mandarin 可轉化的 /可转化的, 可轉變的 /可转变的
- 可轉化的 /可转化的 (kě zhuǎnhuà de)able to be converted
- 可轉變的 /可转变的 (kě zhuǎnbiàn de)able to be converted
- 兩用的 /两用的 (liǎngyòng de)able to be converted
- 可兌換的 /可兑换的 (kě duìhuàn de)able to be converted
- 敞篷車 /敞篷车 (chǎngpéngchē)car whose roof can be removed or folded
Danish cabriolet
- cabrioletcar whose roof can be removed or folded
Esperanto kabrioleto
- kabrioletocar whose roof can be removed or folded
Finnish muuntokelpoinen, muunneltava
- muuntokelpoinenable to be converted
- muunneltavaable to be converted
- avoautocar whose roof can be removed or folded
French convertible, convertissable
- convertibleable to be converted
- convertissableable to be converted
- décapotablecar whose roof can be removed or folded
- cabrioletcar whose roof can be removed or folded
German Cabriolet, Cabrio
- Cabrioletcar whose roof can be removed or folded
- Cabriocar whose roof can be removed or folded
- Kabriolettcar whose roof can be removed or folded
Hungarian átalakítható, átváltoztatható
- átalakíthatóable to be converted
- átváltoztathatóable to be converted
- átválthatóable to be converted
- konvertibilisable to be converted
- lenyithatóable to be converted
- lehajthatóable to be converted
- nyithatóable to be converted
- megtéríthetőable to be converted
- kabriócar whose roof can be removed or folded
- lenyitható/lehajtható/nyitható tetejű autócar whose roof can be removed or folded
Italian convertibile, decappottabile
- convertibileable to be converted
- decappottabilecar whose roof can be removed or folded
Japanese オープンカー, コンバーチブル
- オープンカー (ōpunkā)car whose roof can be removed or folded
- コンバーチブル (konbāchiburu)car whose roof can be removed or folded
- カブリオレ (kaburiore)car whose roof can be removed or folded
Korean 오픈카, 컨버터블
- 오픈카 (opeunka)car whose roof can be removed or folded
- 컨버터블 (keonbeoteobeul)car whose roof can be removed or folded
- 카브리올레 (kabeuriolle)car whose roof can be removed or folded
Norwegian Bokmål kabriolet
- kabrioletcar whose roof can be removed or folded
Polish kabriolet
- kabrioletcar whose roof can be removed or folded
Portuguese convertível, conversível
- convertívelable to be converted
- conversívelable to be converted
- conversívelcar whose roof can be removed or folded
- descapotávelcar whose roof can be removed or folded
- cabriolécar whose roof can be removed or folded
Romanian convertibil
- convertibilable to be converted
Russian конверти́руемый, кабриоле́т
- конверти́руемый (konvertírujemyj)able to be converted
- кабриоле́т (kabriolét)car whose roof can be removed or folded
Spanish convertible, convertible
- convertibleable to be converted
- convertiblecar whose roof can be removed or folded
- descapotablecar whose roof can be removed or folded
- cabriolécar whose roof can be removed or folded
Swedish konverterbar, konvertibel
- konverterbarable to be converted
- konvertibelable to be converted
- cabrioletcar whose roof can be removed or folded
- cabcar whose roof can be removed or folded
Tagalog mababalinyo
- mababalinyoable to be converted
Turkish kabriyole
- kabriyolecar whose roof can be removed or folded
Welsh to gostwng, cabriole
- to gostwngcar whose roof can be removed or folded
- cabriolecar whose roof can be removed or folded
- cabriocar whose roof can be removed or folded
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with convertible
All rhymes →Cite this entry
convertible. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/convertible
“convertible.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/convertible. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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