Word Meanings - ALTERABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Capable of being altered. Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain, alterable by a thousand accidents. Rogers.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ALTERABLE)

• Elastic
• Ductile
• extensile
• alterable
• resilient
• modifiable
• flexible
• buoyant
• springy
• Reversible
• Changeable
• exchangeable
• counterchangeable
• mutable
• revocable
• discretional

Related words: (words related to ALTERABLE)

• RESILIENT
  Leaping back; rebounding; recoling.
• MUTABLE
  1. Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in form, qualities, or nature. Things of the most accidental and mutable nature. South. 2. Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle. "Most mutable wishes." Byron. Syn.
• SPRINGY
  1. Resembling, having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a spring; elastic; as, springy steel; a springy step. Though her little frame was slight, it was firm and springy. Sir W. Scott. 2. Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy; as,
• REVOCABLE
  Capable of being revoked; as, a revocable edict or grant; a revocable covenant. -- Rev"o*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Rev"o*ca*bly, adv.
• DUCTILE
  1. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people. Addison. Forms their ductile minds To human virtues. Philips. 2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads. Gold
• REVERSIBLE
  1. Capable of being reversed; as, a chair or seat having a reversible back; a reversible judgment or sentence. 2. Hence, having a pattern or finished surface on both sides, so that either may be used; -- said of fabrics. Reversible lock, a lock
• ELASTIC
  1. Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic.
• FLEXIBLE
  1. Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle. When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. Shak. 2. Willing or ready
• ELASTICITY
  1. The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the removal of external pressure or altering force; springiness; tendency to rebound; as, the elasticity of caoutchouc;
• ALTERABLE
  Capable of being altered. Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain, alterable by a thousand accidents. Rogers.
• ELASTICALLY
  In an elastic manner; by an elastic power; with a spring.
• DISCRETIONAL; DISCRETIONARY
  Left to discretion; unrestrained except by discretion or judgment; as, an ambassador with discretionary powers.
• MODIFIABLE
  Capable of being modified; liable to modification.
• MUTABLENESS
  The quality of being mutable.
• CHANGEABLE
  1. Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor. 2. Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk. Syn. -- Mutable; alterable;
• CHANGEABLENESS
  The quality of being changeable; fickleness; inconstancy; mutability.
• EXTENSILE
  Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible. Owen.
• EXCHANGEABLE
  1. Capable of being exchanged; fit or proper to be exchanged. The officers captured with Burgoyne were exchangeable within the powers of General Howe. Marshall. 2. Available for making exchanges; ratable. "An exchangeable value." J. S. Mill.
• ELASTICNESS
  The quality of being elastic; elasticity.
• DISCRETIONALLY; DISCRETIONARILY
  At discretion; according to one's discretion or judgment.
• IRRESILIENT
  Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.
• UNELASTICITY
  Inelasticity.
• UNFLEXIBLE
  Inflexible.
• INFLEXIBLE
  1. Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding. 2. Firm in will or purpose; not to be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn. "Inflexibleas steel." Miltom. Amanof upright and inflexibletemper
• INELASTICITY
  Want of elasticity.
• COMMUTABLE
  Capable of being commuted or interchanged. The predicate and subject are not commutable. Whately.
• UNMUTABLE
  Immutable.
• COMMUTABLENESS
  The quality of being commutable; interchangeableness.
• IRREVERSIBLE STEERING GEAR
  A steering gear, esp. for an automobile, not affected by the road wheels, as when they strike an obstacle side ways, but easily controlled by the hand wheel or steering lever.
• PRODUCTILE
  Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.
• IRREVERSIBLENESS
  The state or quality of being irreversible.
• INTRANSMUTABLE
  Not capable of being transmuted or changed into another substance.