Revisable

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Open to modification or alterations, making it adaptable for revisions
2. Capable of being changed or updated, thus allowing for flexibility in its terms
3. Subject to change or correction, allowing updates or edits as needed

Etymology: "Revisable" is a plain English formation: the adjective "revise" plus the suffix "-able," meaning "capable of being" or "able to be." The verb "revise" came into English from French, and its ultimate roots reach back through Latin "revidere," "to look at again," built from "re-" (again) and "videre" (to see). So a revisable thing is one that can be looked at again and altered. The suffix has a longer ancestry than the English word that carries it. It passed from Latin "-bilis" and "-ābilis" into Old French as "-able," and Middle English took it up from there. English then began attaching it freely to native and borrowed verbs, which is how "revisable" came to exist beside older forms like "readable" and "movable."

Synonyms: modifiable, amendable, alterable, changeable, adjustable

Antonyms: final, unchangeable, fixed, immutable, set