perfectible

/pə'fektəbl/

Thân thiện

Human nature is considered perfectible through education and effort.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Capable of being made perfect or becoming perfect: Describes something or someone that has the potential to reach a state of perfection, completeness, or flawlessness through effort, development, or improvement.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The design is good, but it's still perfectible; we can refine the details.
  • Human nature is often considered perfectible through education and self-discipline.
  • She viewed the first draft of her novel as perfectible, not final.

Advanced Usage

• Philosophical/Formal Context: Often used in discussions about human potential, systems, or theories.
  • The concept of a perfectible society has driven many political philosophies.
• With qualifying adverbs: Can be modified to indicate the degree or manner of potential improvement.
  • The prototype is easily perfectible with minor adjustments.

Variants and Related Words

• Perfectibility (noun): The quality or state of being capable of becoming perfect.
  • Philosophers have long debated the perfectibility of humankind.
• Perfect (adjective/verb): The state of being flawless or the act of making something flawless.
• Imperfectible (adjective): Incapable of being made perfect (antonym concept).

Synonyms

• Improvable: Capable of being made better.
• Correctable: Able to be set right or corrected.
• Ameliorable: Capable of being improved or made more satisfactory.

Antonyms

• Incorrigible: Not able to be corrected or improved.
• Hopeless: Offering no possibility of improvement or perfection.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. capable of becoming or being made perfect