alterable

Adjective

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Adjective (2)

  1. capable of being changed or altered in some characteristic“alterable clothing”“alterable conditions of employment”Opposite inalterable
  2. (of the punishment ordered by a court) capable of being changed to one less severeOpposite incommutableSimilar commutable

Related words alter verb, change verb, alterability noun

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Al′ter·a·ble (…), adjective

Origin: Cf. F. altérable.

Capable of being altered.

Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain, alterable by a thousand accidents.— Rogers

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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