replenishable

Able to be renewed or replenished.

Adjective

  1. Able to be renewed or replenished.
    • Time is the most perishable good in the world, and it is not replenishable. - 2009 January 18, Reid Hastie, “Meetings Are a Matter of Precious Time”, in New York Times:

Origin

Etymology tree English replenish Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English replenishable From replenish + -able.

Forms

more replenishable most replenishable

Synonyms

renewable

Derived

nonreplenishable unreplenishable