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
• renewably

Translations

Able to be renewed

• Basque: berriztagarri
• Catalan: renovable (ca)
• Czech: obnovitelný m
• Esperanto: renovigebla
• Finnish: uusintakelpoinen
• French: renouvelable (fr)
• German: erneuerbar (de)
• Icelandic: endurnýjanlegur (is) m
• Italian: rinnovabile (it)

• Japanese: 再生可能な (saisei-kanou-na)
• Manx: yn-aanoaghey
• Norman: r'nouv'labl'ye
• Portuguese: renovável (pt)
• Russian: возобновля́емый (ru) (vozobnovljájemyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: ath-nuadhachail
• Spanish: renovable
• Swedish: förnybar (sv)

Sustainable

• Basque: berriztagarri
• Catalan: renovable (ca)
• Czech: obnovitelný m
• Finnish: uusiutuva (fi)
• German: erneuerbar (de), nachwachsend (de), nachhaltig (de)
• Hungarian: megújuló (hu)
• Italian: rinnovabile (it)

• Japanese: 再生可能な (saisei-kanou-na)
• Polish: odnawialny (pl)
• Portuguese: renovável (pt)
• Scottish Gaelic: ath-nuadhachail
• Spanish: renovable
• Swedish: förnybar (sv)

Noun

renewable (plural renewables)

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

Translations

A renewable resource