increasable

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English increase

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Old French -ablebor.

Middle English -able

English -able

English increasable

From increase + -able.

Adjective

increasable (comparative more increasable, superlative most increasable)

1. Able to be increased.

Antonyms

• unincreasable

Derived terms

• increasableness

Translations

able to be increased

• German: vergrößerbar
• Italian: incrementabile
• Japanese: 増やせる (fuyaseru)
• Portuguese: aumentável
• Spanish: incrementable

See also

• decreasable
• reducible