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形容詞

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

別の表記

• improveable

派生語

語源 2

From im- +‎ provable.

形容詞

improvable (not comparable)

1. Impossible to prove.

派生語

• improvably

参考

• improbable

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “improvable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “improvable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.