renewable

English

Etymology

renew +‎ -able

Adjective

renewable (comparative more renewable, superlative most renewable)

Able to be renewed; capable of renewal.
(of a resource) Sustainable; able to be regrown or renewed; having an ongoing or continuous source of supply; not finite.
Solar and wind power are renewable, but coal is not.

Antonyms

non-renewable

Derived terms

Translations

Able to be renewed

Basque: berriztagarri
Catalan: renovable (ca)
Czech: obnovitelný m
Esperanto: renovigebla
Finnish: uusintakelpoinen
French: renouvelable (fr)
German: erneuerbar (de)
Icelandic: endurnýjanlegur (is) m
Italian: rinnovabile (it)

Japanese: 再生可能な (saisei-kanou-na)
Manx: yn-aanoaghey
Norman: r'nouv'labl'ye
Portuguese: renovável (pt)
Russian: возобновля́емый (ru) (vozobnovljájemyj)
Scottish Gaelic: ath-nuadhachail
Spanish: renovable
Swedish: förnybar (sv)

Sustainable

Basque: berriztagarri
Catalan: renovable (ca)
Czech: obnovitelný m
Finnish: uusiutuva (fi)
German: erneuerbar (de), nachwachsend (de), nachhaltig (de)
Hungarian: megújuló (hu)
Italian: rinnovabile (it)

Japanese: 再生可能な (saisei-kanou-na)
Polish: odnawialny (pl)
Portuguese: renovável (pt)
Scottish Gaelic: ath-nuadhachail
Spanish: renovable
Swedish: förnybar (sv)

Noun

renewable (plural renewables)

A thing that is renewable; especially, a renewable source of energy.
A renewable resource.

Translations

A renewable resource

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