commutable Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective subject to alteration or change
    • the death sentence was commutable to life imprisonment
  2. adjective satellite capable of being exchanged for another or for something else that is equivalent
    substitutable.

WordNet

Com*mut"a*ble adjective
Etymology
L. commutabilis.
Definitions
  1. Capable of being commuted or interchanged.
    The predicate and subject are not commutable. Whately.

Webster 1913