Word Meanings - IMPROVABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Capable of being improved; susceptible of improvement; admitting of being made better; capable of cultivation, or of being advanced in good qualities. Man is accommodated with moral principles, improvable by the exercise of his faculties. Sir

Additional info about word: IMPROVABLE

1. Capable of being improved; susceptible of improvement; admitting of being made better; capable of cultivation, or of being advanced in good qualities. Man is accommodated with moral principles, improvable by the exercise of his faculties. Sir M. Hale. I have a fine spread of improvable lands. Addison. 2. Capable of being used to advantage; profitable; serviceable; advantageous. The essays of weaker heads afford improvable hints to better. Sir T. Browne. -- Im*pro"a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*prov"a*bly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPROVABLE)

• Reclaimable
• Recoverable
• amendable
• corrigible
• convertible
• improvable
• cultivable
• redeemable

Related words: (words related to IMPROVABLE)

• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• CORRIGIBLENESS
  The state or quality of being corrigible; corrigibility.
• IMPROVABLE
  1. Capable of being improved; susceptible of improvement; admitting of being made better; capable of cultivation, or of being advanced in good qualities. Man is accommodated with moral principles, improvable by the exercise of his faculties. Sir
• RECOVERABLE
  Capable of being recovered or regained; capable of being brought back to a former condition, as from sickness, misfortune, etc.; obtainable from a debtor or possessor; as, the debt is recoverable; goods lost or sunk in the ocean are not recoverable.
• CONVERTIBLE
  1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. 2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.
• CULTIVABLE
  Capable of being cultivated or tilled. Todd.
• REDEEMABLENESS
  The quality or state of being redeemable; redeemability.
• CONVERTIBLENESS
  The state of being convertible; convertibility.
• CORRIGIBLE
  1. Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault. 2. Submissive to correction; docile. "Bending down his corrigible neck." Shak. 3. Deserving chastisement; punishable. He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible
• AMENDABLE
  Capable of being amended; as, an amendable writ or error. -- A*mend"a*ble*ness, n.
• REDEEMABLE
  1. Capable of being redeemed; subject to repurchase; held under conditions permitting redemption; as, a pledge securing the payment of money is redeemable. 2. Subject to an obligation of redemtion; conditioned upon a promise of redemtion; payable;
• UNCORRIGIBLE
  Incorrigible; not capable of correction.
• RECONVERTIBLE
  Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
• INCORRIGIBLENESS
  Incorrigibility. Dr. H. More.
• INCONVERTIBLE
  Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh.
• IRRECOVERABLE
  Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied; irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury. That which is past is gone and irrecoverable. Bacon. Syn. -- Irreparable; irretrievable; irremediable; unalterable; incurable; hopeless.
• INCORRIGIBLE
  Not corrigible; incapable of being corrected or amended; bad beyond correction; irreclaimable; as, incorrigible error. "Incorrigible fools." Dryden.
• INTERCONVERTIBLE
  Convertible the one into the other; as, coin and bank notes are interconvertible.
• INCONVERTIBLENESS
  Inconvertibility.
• IRRECLAIMABLE
  Incapable of being reclaimed. Addison. -- Ir`re*claim"a*bly, ad
• IRREDEEMABLE
  Not redeemable; that can not be redeemed; not payable in gold or silver, as a bond; -- used especially of such government notes, issued as currency, as are not convertible into coin at the pleasure of the holder. -- Ir`re*deem"a*ble*ness, adv.