"improvable" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more improvable [comparative], most improvable [superlative]
Etymology: From improve + -able. Etymology templates: {{af|en|improve|-able}} improve + -able Head templates: {{en-adj}} improvable (comparative more improvable, superlative most improvable)
  1. Capable of being improved. Translations (capable of being improved): millorable (Catalan), améliorable (French), perfectible (French), mellorable (Galician), melhorável (Portuguese), mejorable (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-improvable-en-adj-SmrvHg2L Disambiguation of 'capable of being improved': 88 12
  2. Capable of being used to advantage; profitable. Synonyms: serviceable, advantageous
    Sense id: en-improvable-en-adj-Xr2zRQ17 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with in-, English terms suffixed with -able Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 89 8 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with in-: 20 54 27 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -able: 21 79
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: improveable Derived forms: improvableness, improvably
Etymology number: 1

Adjective [English]

Etymology: From im- + provable. Etymology templates: {{af|en|in-|provable|alt1=im-}} im- + provable Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} improvable (not comparable)
  1. Impossible to prove. Tags: not-comparable Related terms: improbable
    Sense id: en-improvable-en-adj-jwLEr7Vn
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: improvably
Etymology number: 2

Alternative forms

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