renewable

English

Etymology

renew +‎ -able

Adjective

renewable (comparative more renewable, superlative most renewable)

1. Able to be renewed; capable of renewal.
2. (of a resource) Sustainable; able to be regrown or renewed; having an ongoing or continuous source of supply; not finite.

   Solar and wind power are renewable, but coal is not.

Antonyms

• non-renewable

Derived terms

• renewability

Translations

Able to be renewed

• Catalan: renovable (ca)
• Czech: obnovitelný (cs) m
• Esperanto: renovigebla (eo)
• Finnish: uusintakelpoinen
• French: renouvelable (fr)
• German: erneuerbar (de)
• Italian: rinnovabile (it)

• Japanese: 再生可能な (saisei-kanou-na)
• Jèrriais: r'nouv'labl'ye
• Manx: yn-aanoaghey (gv)
• Russian: возобновляемый (ru) (vozobnovljájemyj) 
• Scottish Gaelic: ath-nuadhachail (gd)
• Spanish: renovable (es)

Sustainable

• Catalan: renovable (ca)
• Czech: obnovitelný (cs) m
• Finnish: uusiutuva (fi)
• German: erneuerbar (de)
• Italian: rinnovabile (it)

• Japanese: 再生可能な (saisei-kanou-na)
• Polish: odnawialny (pl)
• Scottish Gaelic: ath-nuadhachail (gd)
• Spanish: renovable (es)

Noun

renewable (plural renewables)

1. A thing that is renewable; especially, a renewable source of energy.