Hypertext Webster Gateway: "improvable"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

improvable
adj : susceptible of improvement

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