sustainable
/səˈsteɪnəbəl/
sustainable adjective: able to be sustained.
Adjective
sustainable (comparative more sustainable, superlative most sustainable)
- Able to be sustained.
- Able to be produced or sustained for an indefinite period without damaging the environment, or without depleting a resource; renewable.
- sustainable economy
- In addition to the resources listed in the organic and local food sections earlier, a good source of sustainable meat is Heritage Foods USA (heritagefoodsusa.com).2008, Kate L. Harrison, The Green Bride Guide, →ISBN, page 174
Noun
sustainable (plural sustainables)
- A renewable energy source.
- It has only been in the last 20 years that the long-term trend away from fossil fuels and toward nuclear energy and sustainables has intensified.1996, Joseph Francis Coates, John B. Mahaffie, Andy Hines, 2025: Scenarios of U.S. and Global Society Reshaped by Science and Technology, page 117
sustainable meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Nepali
sustainable in Tamil
- தக்குமை, தக்குமைய, சரியென நிரூபி, நிலைநிறுத்தத்தக்க, நாட்டக்கூடிய, தக்கவைக்கக் கூடிய
sustainable in Bengali
- টেকসই
sustainable in Kannada
- ತಾಳಬಲ್ಲ, ನೆಲೆಸಬಲ್ಲ
More languagesFewer languages
- sustainable in Tagalog
- likas-kaya
- sustainable in Malay
- mampan, lestari
- sustainable in Indonesian
- berkelanjutan, berlanjut, lestari
Examples of sustainable in a sentence
- Some critics have asserted that sustainable food is "elitist"; that it's too expensive and not widely available.2008 August–October, Dawn Brighid, "A Taste of Hope", in Organic Gardening, ISSN 1536-108X, volume 55, number 6, page 73...
- That’s four times more than ecologists say is sustainable.2019, Jason Hickel, “Climate breakdown is coming. The UK needs a Greener New Deal”, in Guardian.:
Forms of sustainable
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more sustainable |
| superlative | most sustainable |
| Noun | |
| plural | sustainables |
Origin of sustainable
From sustain + -able.
Words formed from sustainable
Phrases with sustainable
Questions about sustainable
- What does sustainable mean?
- Sustainable means able to be sustained.
- What is sustainable in Tamil?
- Sustainable in Tamil is தக்குமை, தக்குமைய, சரியென நிரூபி. See Sustainable meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use sustainable in a sentence?
- Some critics have asserted that sustainable food is "elitist"; that it's too expensive and not widely available.
- What part of speech is sustainable?
- Sustainable can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce sustainable?
- Sustainable is pronounced /səˈsteɪnəbəl/.
Words near sustainable in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sustainable (page history and authors); sustainable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sustainable (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sustainable (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sustainable (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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