revocable

Subject to withdrawal

Revocable means capable of being revoked or withdrawn.

A revocable trust can be modified or canceled by the person who created it.

A revocable offer remains open until the offeror takes it back.

The word appears most often in legal and financial contexts where the ability to undo an arrangement matters: The license is revocable at any time.

legal

rescindable

Capable of annulment

terminable · repealable · retractable · withdrawable · rescission · annulment · abrogation · countermand · nullifiable · dissoluble

temporary

provisional

Conditional and possibly temporary

nonpermanent · impermanent · temporary · short-term · limited · terminable · contingent · subject to change · precarious · unstable

modifiable

amendable

Able to be changed

revisable · changeable · emendable · rectifiable · correctable · editable · renegotiable · rewritable · updatable · variable

conditional

contingent

Conditional or representative group

subject to · provisional · prerequisite · caveat · proviso · clause · terms · conditions · if-then · circumstantial

Categories
Opposites
permanence of decisions or commitments

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Cannot be undone

irreversible · permanent · final · unalterable · unchangeable

Phrases
Family

irrevocable, irrevocably, irrevocability, revocability, irrevocableness

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