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IMPROVABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does improvable mean?
• IMPROVABLE (adjective)
The adjective IMPROVABLE has 1 sense:
1. susceptible of improvement
Familiarity information: IMPROVABLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Susceptible of improvement
Similar:
corrigible (capable of being corrected or set right)
Context examples
The young woman was very improvable, and spoke the languages; and wouldn't have been known for the same country-person.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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