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alterable

[ awl-ter-uh-buhl ]

/ ˈɔl tər ə bəl /

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adjective

capable of being altered.

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Origin of alterable

First recorded in 1520–30; alter + -able

OTHER WORDS FROM alterable

al·ter·a·bil·i·ty, al·ter·a·ble·ness, nounal·ter·a·bly, adverbre·al·ter·a·ble, adjectivere·al·ter·a·ble·ness, noun

re·al·ter·a·bly, adverb

Words nearby alterable

alt.country, Altdorf, Altdorfer, Alte Pinakothek, alter, alterable, alterant, alteration, alterative, altercate, altercation

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Example sentences from the Web for alterable

So if Truth is an alterable and shifting concept, must not morality likewise be variable?
Prophets of Dissent|Otto Heller
The provisions with respect to this second order fall within the class of enactments which are alterable by the Irish Legislature.
Handbook of Home Rule (1887)|W. E. Gladstone et al.
Must we regard this emotional endowment of woman as permanent or alterable?
The Truth About Woman|C. Gasquoine Hartley
The very fourth commandment, however it was a perpetual law as to the proportion of time, yet was alterable as to the seventh day.
A Christian Directory|Baxter Richard

Our sentence we cannot alter; a Court's sentence is alterable only by appeal; your Majesty decides where the appeal is to lie!
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XXI. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle

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