meliorable

English

Etymology

Latin melior (“better (than)”) +‎ -able.

Adjective

meliorable (comparative more meliorable, superlative most meliorable)

  1. Able to be improved.
    • 1928, Paul Carus, The Open Court, volume 42, page 759:
      Man has found that his world is not by any means the best possible of worlds, so it therefore concerns him greatly to know whether it is meliorable and what the most efficient method for realizing such betterment is.
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