sustainable

Pluralsustainables

1. 1
   adjective

   Able to be used or made for a long time without harming nature or using up resources.

   Like picking only the ripe apples each year so the tree keeps giving fruit forever.

   The company switched to sustainable farming so the soil stays healthy for years.

   Solar power is a sustainable way to make electricity.

   Similarrenewable, green, eco-friendly

   Oppositeunsustainable

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2. 2
   adjective

   Able to be kept going or kept up over time.

   Like a habit you can keep up every day without getting tired of it.

   The pace they set early in the race was not sustainable for the whole distance.

   We need a budget that is sustainable month after month.

   Similarviable, maintainable, feasible, tenable

   Oppositeunsustainable, untenable

3. 3
   nouncountable

   A source of energy, like sunlight or wind, that does not run out.

   Like a well that keeps filling back up no matter how much water you take from it.

   Wind power is a sustainable that many countries now rely on.

   Engineers are adding more sustainables to the national grid.

   Similarrenewable

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