Word Meanings - CONVERTIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. 2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.

Additional info about word: CONVERTIBLE

1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. 2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable. So long as we are in the regions of nature, miraculous and improbable, miraculous and incredible, may be allowed to remain convertible terms. Trench.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONVERTIBLE)

• Companionable
• Pleasant
• affable
• sociable
• convertible
• friendly
• easy
• agreeable
• gregarious
• Reclaimable
• Recoverable
• amendable
• corrigible
• improvable
• cultivable
• redeemable
• Sociable
• genial
• social
• accessible

Related words: (words related to CONVERTIBLE)

• SOCIALIST; SOCIALISTIC
  Pertaining to, or of the nature of, socialism.
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• GENIALLY
  1. By genius or nature; naturally. Some men are genially disposed to some opinions. Glanvill. 2. Gayly; cheerfully. Johnson.
• SOCIALIZE
  1. To render social. 2. To subject to, or regulate by, socialism.
• SOCIALITY
  The quality of being social; socialness.
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• GENIALNESS
  The quality of being genial.
• GENIALITY
  The quality of being genial; sympathetic cheerfulness; warmth of disposition and manners.
• FRIENDLY
  1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable. 2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay. 3.
• PLEASANTNESS
  The state or quality of being pleasant.
• SOCIABLENESS
  The quality of being sociable.
• SOCIAL
  Naturally growing in groups or masses; -- said of many individual plants of the same species. Living in communities consisting of males, females, and neuters, as do ants and most bees. Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from
• COMPANIONABLE
  Fitted to be a companion; fit for good fellowship; agreeable; sociable. "Each companionable guest." Mallett. "Companionable wit." Clarendon. -- Com*pan"ion*a*ble*ness, n. -- Com*pan"ion*a*bly, adv.
• CORRIGIBLENESS
  The state or quality of being corrigible; corrigibility.
• IMPROVABLE
  1. Capable of being improved; susceptible of improvement; admitting of being made better; capable of cultivation, or of being advanced in good qualities. Man is accommodated with moral principles, improvable by the exercise of his faculties. Sir
• AFFABLE
  1. Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable. An affable and courteous gentleman. Shak. His manners polite and affable. Macaulay. 2. Gracious;
• RECOVERABLE
  Capable of being recovered or regained; capable of being brought back to a former condition, as from sickness, misfortune, etc.; obtainable from a debtor or possessor; as, the debt is recoverable; goods lost or sunk in the ocean are not recoverable.
• CONVERTIBLE
  1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. 2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.
• SOCIALLY
  In a social manner; sociably.
• GENIAL
  See GENIAN
• UNCORRIGIBLE
  Incorrigible; not capable of correction.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• RECONVERTIBLE
  Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
• PRIMOGENIAL
  First born, made, or generated; original; primary; elemental; as, primogenial light. Glanvill.
• INCORRIGIBLENESS
  Incorrigibility. Dr. H. More.
• INCONVERTIBLE
  Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh.
• STATE SOCIALISM
  A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
• CONGENIALLY
  In a congenial manner; as, congenially married or employed.
• IRRECOVERABLE
  Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied; irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury. That which is past is gone and irrecoverable. Bacon. Syn. -- Irreparable; irretrievable; irremediable; unalterable; incurable; hopeless.