Word Meanings - REVOCABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Capable of being revoked; as, a revocable edict or grant; a revocable covenant. -- Rev"o*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Rev"o*ca*bly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REVOCABLE)

• Alterable
• Variable
• mutable
• changeable
• movable
• revocable
• Reversible
• Changeable
• exchangeable
• counterchangeable
• alterable
• discretional

Related words: (words related to REVOCABLE)

• MOVABLE
  1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine. 2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable
• 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
• VARIABLENESS
  The quality or state of being variable; variability. James i.
• ALTERABLE
  Capable of being altered. Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain, alterable by a thousand accidents. Rogers.
• VARIABLE
  1. Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity. 2. Liable to vary; too susceptible of change; mutable; fickle; unsteady; inconstant;
• 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.
• MOVABLENESS
  The quality or state of being movable; mobility; susceptibility of motion.
• ALTERABLENESS
  The quality of being alterable; variableness; alterability.
• IRREMOVABLE
  Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.
• COMMUTABLE
  Capable of being commuted or interchanged. The predicate and subject are not commutable. Whately.
• UNMUTABLE
  Immutable.
• IMMOVABLE
  Not liable to be removed; permanent in place or tenure; fixed; as, an immovable estate. See Immovable, n. Blackstone. Immovable apparatus , an appliance, like the plaster of paris bandage, which keeps fractured parts firmly in place. -- Immovable
• 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.
• AMOVABLE
  Removable.
• 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.
• UNVARIABLE
  Invariable. Donne.