3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Improvable \Im*prov"a*ble\, a. [From {Improve}.] 1. Capable of being improved; susceptible of improvement; admitting of being made better; capable of cultivation, or of being advanced in good qualities. [1913 Webster] Man is accommodated with moral principles, improvable by the exercise of his faculties. --Sir M. Hale. [1913 Webster] I have a fine spread of improvable lands. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 2. Capable of being used to advantage; profitable; serviceable; advantageous. [1913 Webster] The essays of weaker heads afford improvable hints to better. --Sir T. Browne. -- {Im*pro"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Im*prov"a*bly}, adv. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: improvable adj : susceptible of improvement From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 21 Moby Thesaurus words for "improvable": ameliorable, amendable, correctable, corrigible, curable, emendable, fixable, medicable, mendable, perfectible, reclaimable, recoverable, rectifiable, recyclable, redeemable, remediable, repairable, reparable, restorable, retrievable, reversible
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