improvable

English

Etymology 1

From improve +‎ -able.

Adjective

improvable (comparative more improvable, superlative most improvable)

1. Capable of being improved.
   • 1876, Joachim Kaspary, Natural Laws; or The Infallible Criterion, London: J. A. Brook & Co., […], →OCLC, page 136:

     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.

2. Capable of being used to advantage; profitable.

   Synonyms: serviceable, advantageous

Alternative forms

• improveable

Derived terms

• improvableness
• improvably

Translations

capable of being improved

• Catalan: millorable
• French: améliorable (fr), perfectible (fr)
• Galician: mellorable (gl)
• Portuguese: melhorável (pt)
• Spanish: mejorable (es)

Etymology 2

From im- +‎ provable.

Adjective

improvable (not comparable)

1. Impossible to prove.

Derived terms

• improvably

See also

• improbable

References

• “improvable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “improvable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.