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 Meaning of IMPROVABLE
| Pronunciation: |  | im'proovubul 
 
 |  |  WordNet Dictionary |  |  |  |  | Definition: |  | [adj]  susceptible of improvement |  |  |  |  | Websites: |  |  |  |  |  |  | Synonyms: |  | corrigible |  |  |  |     |  |  Webster's 1913 Dictionary |  |  |  |  | Definition: |  | \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.
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