Word Meanings - ALTERABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Capable of being altered. Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain, alterable by a thousand accidents. Rogers.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ALTERABLE)
- Elastic
- Ductile
- extensile
- alterable
- resilient
- modifiable
- flexible
- buoyant
- springy
- Reversible
- Changeable
- exchangeable
- counterchangeable
- mutable
- revocable
- discretional
Related words: (words related to ALTERABLE)
- RESILIENT
Leaping back; rebounding; recoling. - MUTABLE
1. Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in form, qualities, or nature. Things of the most accidental and mutable nature. South. 2. Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle. "Most mutable wishes." Byron. Syn. - SPRINGY
1. Resembling, having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a spring; elastic; as, springy steel; a springy step. Though her little frame was slight, it was firm and springy. Sir W. Scott. 2. Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy; as, - REVOCABLE
Capable of being revoked; as, a revocable edict or grant; a revocable covenant. -- Rev"o*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Rev"o*ca*bly, adv. - DUCTILE
1. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people. Addison. Forms their ductile minds To human virtues. Philips. 2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads. Gold - REVERSIBLE
1. Capable of being reversed; as, a chair or seat having a reversible back; a reversible judgment or sentence. 2. Hence, having a pattern or finished surface on both sides, so that either may be used; -- said of fabrics. Reversible lock, a lock - ELASTIC
1. Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic. - FLEXIBLE
1. Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle. When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. Shak. 2. Willing or ready - ELASTICITY
1. The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the removal of external pressure or altering force; springiness; tendency to rebound; as, the elasticity of caoutchouc; - ALTERABLE
Capable of being altered. Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain, alterable by a thousand accidents. Rogers. - ELASTICALLY
In an elastic manner; by an elastic power; with a spring. - DISCRETIONAL; DISCRETIONARY
Left to discretion; unrestrained except by discretion or judgment; as, an ambassador with discretionary powers. - MODIFIABLE
Capable of being modified; liable to modification. - MUTABLENESS
The quality of being mutable. - CHANGEABLE
1. Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor. 2. Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk. Syn. -- Mutable; alterable; - CHANGEABLENESS
The quality of being changeable; fickleness; inconstancy; mutability. - EXTENSILE
Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible. Owen. - EXCHANGEABLE
1. Capable of being exchanged; fit or proper to be exchanged. The officers captured with Burgoyne were exchangeable within the powers of General Howe. Marshall. 2. Available for making exchanges; ratable. "An exchangeable value." J. S. Mill. - ELASTICNESS
The quality of being elastic; elasticity. - DISCRETIONALLY; DISCRETIONARILY
At discretion; according to one's discretion or judgment. - IRRESILIENT
Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic. - UNELASTICITY
Inelasticity. - UNFLEXIBLE
Inflexible. - INFLEXIBLE
1. Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding. 2. Firm in will or purpose; not to be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn. "Inflexibleas steel." Miltom. Amanof upright and inflexibletemper - INELASTICITY
Want of elasticity. - COMMUTABLE
Capable of being commuted or interchanged. The predicate and subject are not commutable. Whately. - UNMUTABLE
Immutable. - COMMUTABLENESS
The quality of being commutable; interchangeableness. - IRREVERSIBLE STEERING GEAR
A steering gear, esp. for an automobile, not affected by the road wheels, as when they strike an obstacle side ways, but easily controlled by the hand wheel or steering lever. - PRODUCTILE
Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile. - IRREVERSIBLENESS
The state or quality of being irreversible. - INTRANSMUTABLE
Not capable of being transmuted or changed into another substance.