ADJECTIVE | all | commutable | subject to alteration or change |
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all | commutable, substitutable | capable of being exchanged for another or for something else that is equivalent |
Meaning | subject to alteration or change. | |
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Example | "the death sentence was commutable to life imprisonment" | |
Narrower | alterable | (of the punishment ordered by a court) capable of being changed to one less severe |
convertible, transformable, translatable, transmutable | capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy | |
Opposite | incommutable | not subject to alteration or change |
Spanish | conmutable, mudable, transformable, variable | |
Catalan | mudable, transformable, variable |
Meaning | capable of being exchanged for another or for something else that is equivalent. | |
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Synonym | substitutable | |
Broader | exchangeable | Suitable to be exchanged |
Spanish | conmutable, substituible | |
Nouns | commutability | exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable |
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