alterable

[awl-ter-uh-buh l]

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adjective

capable of being altered.

Origin of alterable

First recorded in 1520–30; alter + -able

Related formsal·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, nounre·al·ter·a·bly, adverb

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Related Words for alterable

adaptable, adjustable, flexible, fluid, malleable, mutable, variable, variant, modifiable

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Historical Examples of alterable

Must we regard this emotional endowment of woman as permanent or alterable?
The Truth About Woman
C. Gasquoine Hartley
Their acts are "alterable" by the Board of Overseers, to whom they are responsible.
Colleges in America
John Marshall Barker
So if Truth is an alterable and shifting concept, must not morality likewise be variable?
Prophets of Dissent
Otto Heller
But all the other laws of Scotland shall remain in force; but alterable by the parliament of Great Britain.
Commentaries on the Laws of England
William Blackstone
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

Word Origin and History for alterable

adj.

1520s, from alter + -able. Related: Alterably; alterability.