- Improableness
- Improvable 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.
[1913 Webster]
Man is accommodated with moral principles, improvable by the exercise of his faculties. --Sir M. Hale. [1913 Webster]
I have a fine spread of improvable lands. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
2. Capable of being used to advantage; profitable; serviceable; advantageous. [1913 Webster]
The essays of weaker heads afford improvable hints to better. --Sir T. Browne. -- {Im*pro"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Im*prov"a*bly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.