increasable

The company's profits are increasable with better marketing.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Capable of being increased: "increasable" describes something that can be made larger in amount, size, degree, or intensity.

Usage Examples

• (The budget can be raised.)
• (The volume can be made louder.)
• (Their effort cannot be expanded further.)

Advanced Usage

• "readily increasable": easily capable of being increased.

  • The storage capacity of the system is readily increasable by adding more drives. (The storage can be easily expanded.)

• "increasable by": used to specify the amount or method of increase.

  • The temperature is increasable by increments of 5 degrees. (The temperature can be raised in 5-degree steps.)

Variants and Related Words

• Increase (verb/noun): to become or make greater in size, amount, or degree.
  • The company plans to increase its workforce. (To make larger.)
• Increasing (adj): becoming greater over time.
  • The increasing demand for housing is a concern. (Growing.)
• Increased (adj): made greater in amount or intensity.
  • The increased speed caused the car to vibrate. (Raised.)
• Unincreasable (adj): not capable of being increased.
  • The maximum capacity of the machine is unincreasable. (Cannot be made larger.)

Synonyms

• Expandable: capable of being enlarged or extended.
• Augmentable: capable of being made greater or supplemented.
• Enlargeable: capable of being made larger in size.

Antonyms

• Reducible: capable of being made smaller.
• Decreasable: capable of being lessened.

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