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Word Meanings - EXCHANGEABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • ALTERABLE
    Capable of being altered. Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain, alterable by a thousand accidents. Rogers.
  • DISCRETIONAL; DISCRETIONARY
    Left to discretion; unrestrained except by discretion or judgment; as, an ambassador with discretionary powers.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • DISCRETIONALLY; DISCRETIONARILY
    At discretion; according to one's discretion or judgment.
  • ALTERABLENESS
    The quality of being alterable; variableness; alterability.
  • 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.
  • IRREVERSIBLENESS
    The state or quality of being irreversible.
  • INTRANSMUTABLE
    Not capable of being transmuted or changed into another substance.
  • INALTERABLE
    Not alterable; incapable of being altered or changed; unalterable. -- In*al"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- In*al"ter*a*bly, adv.
  • IRREVERSIBLE
    1. Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, an irreversible engine. 2. Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled; as, an irreversible sentence or decree. This rejection
  • PERMUTABLE
    Capable of being permuted; exchangeable. -- Per*mut"a*ble*ness, n. -- Per*mut"a*bly, adv.
  • IRREVOCABLE
    Incapable of being recalled or revoked; unchangeable; irreversible; unalterable; as, an irrevocable promise or decree; irrevocable fate. Firm and irrevocable is my doom. Shak. -- Ir*rev"o*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ir*rev"o*ca*bly, adv.
  • TRANSMUTABLE
    Capable of being transmuted or changed into a different substance, or into into something of a different form a nature; transformable. The fluids and solids of an animal body are easily transmutable into one another. Arbuthnot. -- Trans*mut"a*ble*ness,
  • INCOMMUTABLE
    Not commutable; not capable of being exchanged with, or substituted for, another. Cudworth. -- In`com*mut"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`com*mut"a*bly, adv.

 

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