renewable

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Adjective

renewable

1. Able to be renewed; capable of renewal.
2. (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

Translations

• French: renouvelable
• German: erneuerbar
• Italian: rinnovabile
• Portuguese: renovável
• Russian: возобновля́емый
• Spanish: renovable

Translations

• German: erneuerbar, nachwachsend, nachhaltig
• Italian: rinnovabile
• Portuguese: renovável
• Spanish: renovable

Noun

renewable (plural renewables)

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

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