improvable

adj — 3 senses

improvable

adj

Etymology From improve + -able.

1

Capable of being improved.

  • 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:
2

Capable of being used to advantage; profitable.

Derived terms
improvableness, improvably, unimprovable

improvable

adj

Etymology From im- + provable.

1

Impossible to prove.

Derived terms
improvably
Related terms
improbable

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