\Im*prov"a*ble\, a. [From {Improve}.]
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.

         The essays of weaker heads afford improvable hints
         to better.                            --Sir T.
                                               Browne.
   -- {Im*pro"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Im*prov"a*bly}, adv.