amendable

adjective

amend·​able ə-ˈmen-də-bəl 

: capable of being amended : able to be revised or altered

The contract is currently amendable, and Frontier flight attendants voted in November to strike unless their demands are met.

—Megan Cerullo

The Constitution has biblical status for the nation, but it is understood to be amendable because it serves a principle more ultimate than itself—that of the sovereignty of the people.

—E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

Examples of amendable in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Delta’s contract with its pilots becomes amendable Dec. 31, and the airline and its pilot group are in active talks about the next contract. —Zach Wichter, USA Today, 5 May 2026

These situations are amendable to creditors claiming that the structure is nothing more than the client's alter ego, which is why creditors love to see them. —Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2026

The resolution is amendable, which means Senate Democrats may attempt to modify it by broadening its restrictions on Trump’s power to include the deployment of troops to Greenland, Cuba or Colombia. —Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 12 Jan. 2026

And for toddlers who aren’t always amendable to sitting down at the dinner table, anything that might help them get excited about mealtimes is going to be a win for parents, too. —Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 2 May 2025

What this means is that a smart creditor will immediately seek to register the charging order as a sister-state order in a jurisdiction where the LLC is amendable to personal jurisdiction, i.e., where it is formed or conducting business. —Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for amendable

• spendable
• commendable
• dependable
• expendable
• extendable
• undependable