improvable

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: im=prov=a=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

improvable, a. [From Improve.].

•  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."  [1913 Webster]

  "I have a fine spread of improvable lands."  [1913 Webster]
•  Capable of being used to advantage; profitable; serviceable; advantageous.  [1913 Webster]

  "The essays of weaker heads afford improvable hints to better."

OXFORD DICTIONARY

improvable, adj.
1 that can be improved.
2 suitable for cultivation.

Derivative

improvability n.

THESAURUS

improvable

ameliorable, amendable, correctable, corrigible, curable, emendable, fixable, medicable, mendable, perfectible, reclaimable, recoverable, rectifiable, recyclable, redeemable, remediable, repairable, reparable, restorable, retrievable, reversible

ROGET THESAURUS

improvable

Improvement

N improvement, amelioration, melioration, betterment, mend, amendment, emendation, mending, advancement, advance, ascent, promotion, preferment, elevation, increase, cultivation, civilization, culture, march of intellect, menticulture, race-culture, eugenics, reform, reformation, revision, radical reform, second thoughts, correction, limoe labor, refinement, elaboration, purification, oxidation, repair, recovery, revise, new edition, reformer, radical, improving, progressive, improved, better, better off, better for, all the better for, better advised, reformatory, emendatory, reparatory, remedial, corrigible, improvable, accultural, on consideration, on reconsideration, on second thoughts, on better advice, ad melius inquirendum, urbent latericiam invenit marmoream reliquit.