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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Improvable \Im*prov"a*ble\, adjective [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.
Man is accommodated with moral principles, improvable by the exercise of his faculties. --Sir M. Hale.
I have a fine spread of improvable lands. --Addison.
2. Capable of being used to advantage; profitable; serviceable; advantageous.
The essays of weaker heads afford improvable hints to better. --Sir T. Browne. -- {Im*pro"a*ble*ness}, noun -- {Im*prov"a*bly}, adverb
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
improvable
adjective: 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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