Crossword clues for improvable
improvable
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Improvable \Im*prov"a*ble\, a. [From Improve.]
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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.
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Capable of being used to advantage; profitable; serviceable; advantageous.
The essays of weaker heads afford improvable hints to better.
--Sir T. Browne. -- Im*pro"a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*prov"a*bly, adv.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Capable of being improved; susceptible of improvement; admitting of being made better; capable of cultivation, or of being advanced in good qualities. 2 Capable of being used to advantage; profitable; serviceable; advantageous.
WordNet
adj. susceptible of improvement
Usage examples of "improvable".
And there was always Godel for a theoretical cordon sanitaire, with his demonstration of the true but mechanically improvable proposition.
Put briefly, and somewhat crudely, we on the Exotics believe that Man is improvable.