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im·prov·able
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Princeton's WordNet
improvableadjective
susceptible of improvement
Wiktionary
improvableadjective
Capable of being improved; susceptible of improvement; admitting of being made better; capable of cultivation, or of being advanced in good qualities.
improvableadjective
Capable of being used to advantage; profitable; serviceable; advantageous.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Improvableadjective
Capable of being advanced from a good to a better state; capable of melioration.
Etymology: from improve.
Adventures in knowledge are laudable, and the essays of weaker heads afford improvable hints unto better. Brown.
We have stock enough, and that too of so improvable a nature, that is, capable of infinite advancement. Decay of Piety.
Man is accommodated with moral principles, improvable by the exercise of his faculties. Matthew Hale, Origin of Mankind.
Animals are not improvable beyond their proper genius: a dog will never learn to mew, nor a cat to bark. Nehemiah Grew, Cosmol.
I have a fine spread of improvable lands, and am already planting woods and draining marshes. Joseph Addison, Spectator.
Wikipedia
improvable
Improvement is the process of a thing moving from one state to a state considered to be better, usually through some action intended to bring about that better state. The concept of improvement is important to governments and businesses, as well as to individuals.
Webster Dictionary
Improvableadjective
capable of being improved; susceptible of improvement; admitting of being made better; capable of cultivation, or of being advanced in good qualities
Improvableadjective
capable of being used to advantage; profitable; serviceable; advantageous
Etymology: [From Improve.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of improvable in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of improvable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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