Definitions for perfectible

perfectible per·fect·i·ble

Spelling: [per-fek-tuh-buh l]
IPA: /pərˈfɛk tə bəl/

Perfectible is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 533 anagrams from letters in perfectible (bceeefilprt).

Definitions for perfectible

adjective

  1. capable of becoming or of being made perfect; improvable.

Origin of perfectible

1625-35; French Medieval Latin perfectibilis. See perfect, -ible

Examples for perfectible

Hence he is perfectible through nature, and merely conforms to nature in improving his mind and in bettering his condition.

Man is not a perfectible animal; not on this side of eternity.

We in our land of optimists like to believe our species is perfectible.

The Mennonites believed that man was essentially depraved; Ballou believed that he was perfectible.

He is perfectible, seeks after improvement, and shuns deterioration.

Neither markets nor government are perfectible; the best we're going to get is ones that work pretty well most of the time.

You pretend man's perfectible, that woman's got a capacity for disinterested self-sacrifice.

But this work is perfectible and it contains in its constitution even the principles of its perfectibility.

But as man is perfectible this condition of things cannot last.

Word Value for perfectible
Scrable

20

Words with friends

24

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