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Webster 1913 Edition
Improvable
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.
– Im-pro′a-ble-ness
, Noun.
Im-prov′a-bly
, adv.
Webster 1828 Edition
Improvable
IMPROV'ABLE
,Adj.
We have stock enough, and that too of an improvable nature, that is capable of infinite advancement.
Man is accommodated with moral principles,improvable by the exercise of his faculties.
I have a fine spread of improvable lands.
1.
That may be used to advantage, or for the increase of any thing valuable. The essays of weaker heads afford improvable hints to better.
2.
Capable of tillage or cultivation. A scarcity of improvable lands began to be felt in these colonies.
Definition 2024
improvable
improvable
English
Adjective
improvable
- Capable of being improved; susceptible of improvement; admitting of being made better; capable of cultivation, or of being advanced in good qualities.
- Capable of being used to advantage; profitable; serviceable; advantageous.
Derived terms
References
- improvable in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- improvable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913