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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

... the approbation of all her friends) has fallen upon a sincere, an honest, a virtuous, and, what is more than all, a pious man; a man who, although he admires her person, is still more in love with the graces of her mind. And as those graces are improvable with every added year of life, which will impair the transitory ones of person, what a firm basis, infers she, has Mr. Hickman chosen ...

— Clarissa Harlowe, Volume 9 (of 9) - The History Of A Young Lady • Samuel Richardson

Words linked to "Improvable" : corrigible