Meanings
improvable1
comparative more improvable · superlative most improvable · alternative improveable
- Capable of being improved.
1 more example
Therefore, Humanitarians alone devote their present lives to create heavens within themselves and others, and a real paradise upon earth, because they do not waste their time with Pagan delusions, Sceptical doubts, and Atheistical selfishness, but live happily in the present by preparing for themselves and others happier future human lives upon our improveable globe.
1876, Joachim Kaspary, Natural Laws; or The Infallible Criterion, London: J. A. Brook & Co., […], →OCLC, page 136 - Capable of being used to advantage; profitable.
Synonyms: serviceable, advantageous
improvable2
- not comparableImpossible to prove.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveCapable of being used to advantage; profitable.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivesusceptible of improvement
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
improvable · adjective
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Italic*n̥-
- Latinin-
- Middle Englishin-
- Englishim-
- Englishprovable
- Englishimprovable
Translations
Catalan millorable
- millorablecapable of being improved
Finnish parannettavissa (oleva)
- parannettavissa (oleva)capable of being improved
French améliorable, perfectible
- améliorablecapable of being improved
- perfectiblecapable of being improved
Polish możliwy do poprawy
- możliwy do poprawycapable of being improved
Portuguese melhorável
- melhorávelcapable of being improved
Spanish mejorable
- mejorablecapable of being improved
Cite this entry
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