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Improvable adj.

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." "I have a fine spread of improvable lands."

Capable of being used to advantage; profitable; serviceable; advantageous. "The essays of weaker heads afford improvable hints to better."

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Etymology of 'Improvable'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Improvable" Quotes from Famous Books

... mitigate; lessen an evil &c. 36 . Adj. improving &c. v.; progressive, improved &c. v.; better, better off, better for; all the better for; better advised. reformatory, emendatory[obs3]; reparatory &c. (restorative) 660[obs3]; remedial &c. 662. corrigible, improvable; accultural[obs3]. adv. on consideration, on reconsideration, on second thoughts, on better advice; ad melius inquirendum[Lat]. phr. urbent latericiam ...

— Roget's Thesaurus

... could men help accounting for the mysteries of our nature otherwise than by divine interposition? Of whom but of God Himself could sages demand an account of an invisible creature so actively and so reactively sensitive, gifted with faculties so extensive, so improvable by use, and so powerful under certain occult influences, that they could sometimes see it annihilate, by some phenomenon of sight or movement, space in its two manifestations—Time and Distance—of which the former is the space of the intellect, the latter ...

— Louis Lambert • Honore de Balzac

Words linked to "Improvable" : corrigible