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improvable

improvable

1 4.1
Can be made better
  • adjective
  • /ɪmˈpruːvəbl/
translation icon : mejorable
  • The company is constantly looking for improvable aspects of their product to enhance customer satisfaction.

Is that something that you see as a improvable situation?

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Examples

  • Nevertheless, that is our system of education; it may well be improvable, but so far it has a pretty good track record.

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  • I find this dovetails well with being a classical liberal, with a belief that the human condition is, over time, improvable (not perfectible).

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  • Is that something that you see as a improvable situation?

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  • She believes that every skill is improvable with enough practice and dedication.

  • The team's performance last season was good, but it is improvable if they work harder.

Synonyms

reformable
vsimprovable
1 5.2

Able to be changed to be better

does not imply correction or substantial change in form

How Improvable

changeable
8 3.5
modifiable
1 5.1
improvable
1 4.1
irreparable
24 7.6

Surface Forms

improvable positive

Morphology

improvable = improve (transparent) = improve + able

Meaning is directly derived from the verb 'improve' plus the productive suffix '-able' meaning 'capable of being'.

Etymology

Improvable is simply improve + -able, where -able means 'can be done'. The verb improve comes from an old root meaning 'good' (Latin probus), so to improve is to make something 'good' or better, and improvable means it 'can be made better'.