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perfectible
[ per-fek-tuh-buhl ]
perfectible
/ pəˈfɛktəbəl /
adjective
- capable of becoming or being made perfect
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Derived Forms
- perˌfectiˈbility, noun
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Other Words From
- per·fecti·bil·ist noun
- per·fecti·bili·ty noun
- nonper·fecti·bili·ty noun
- nonper·fecti·ble adjective
- self-per·fecti·bili·ty noun
- unper·fecti·ble adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of perfectible1
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Example Sentences
We in our land of optimists like to believe our species is perfectible.
From The Daily Beast
Neither markets nor government are perfectible; the best we're going to get is ones that work pretty well most of the time.
From The Daily Beast
But this work is perfectible and it contains in its constitution even the principles of its perfectibility.
From Project Gutenberg
Man is not a perfectible animal; not on this side of eternity.
From Project Gutenberg
Scientific truths are infinitely perfectible, but never absolute.
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He is perfectible, seeks after improvement, and shuns deterioration.
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You pretend man's perfectible, that woman's got a capacity for disinterested self-sacrifice.
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