amendable

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

a•mend /əˈmɛnd/   v. [~ + object]

1. Government to modify, rephrase, or change (a bill, constitution, etc.) by formal procedure:
   Congress may amend the proposed tax bill.
2. to change for the better;
   improve:
   She needs to amend her ways.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

a•mend  (ə mend′), v.t. 

1. Government to alter, modify, rephrase, or add to or subtract from (a motion, bill, constitution, etc.) by formal procedure:
   Congress may amend the proposed tax bill.
2. to change for the better;
   improve:
   to amend one's ways.
3. to remove or correct faults in;
   rectify.

v.i. 

4. to grow or become better by reforming oneself:
   He amends day by day.

• Latin ēmendāre to correct, equivalent. to ē- e- + mend(a) blemish + -āre infinitive suffix
• Old French amender
• Middle English amenden 1175–1225

a•mend′a•ble, adj. 
a•mend′er, n. 
Synonyms

• 2. ameliorate, better.
• 3. Amend, emend both mean to improve by correcting or by freeing from error.
  Amend is the general term, used of any such correction in detail:
  to amend spelling, punctuation, grammar.
  Emend usually applies to the correction of a text in the process of editing or preparing for publication; it implies improvement in the sense of greater accuracy:
  He emended the text of the play by restoring the original reading.
• 4. improve, ameliorate.

Antonyms

• 2, 4. worsen.