curable

[ kyoo r-uh-buh l ]

/ ˈkyʊər ə bəl /

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adjective

capable of being cured.

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Origin of curable

1350–1400; Middle English (< Middle French) < Latin cūrābilis, equivalent to cūrā(re) to care for (derivative of cūra care) + -bilis -ble

Related forms

cur·a·bil·i·ty, cur·a·ble·ness, nouncur·a·bly, adverbun·cur·a·ble, adjectiveun·cur·a·ble·ness, noun

un·cur·a·bly, adverb

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Examples from the Web for curable

But it remains a curable illness, and one that does not require course after course of antibiotics.
Predator Doctors Take Advantage of Patients With ‘Chronic Lyme’ Scam|Russell Saunders|September 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Homosexuality must be curable, it argues, since the Torah would not forbid something which is impossible to avoid.
Gay Orthodox Jews Sue Over Therapy That Claims to ‘Cure’ Them|Zoë Blackler|November 27, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Diabesity is nearly 100 percent preventable, treatable, and very often curable.
The Real Fight Over Health Care Should Be Against Diabetes and Obesity|Mark Hyman, MD|March 23, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Gangrene is not curable by current medical intervention once past a certain point in its progression, except by amputation.
Can Meditation Cure Disease?|Maureen Seaberg|December 25, 2010|DAILY BEAST

How curable it is—caught soon enough—and how deadly it is if ignored.
Carly's Cancer Warning|Dana Goldstein|November 20, 2009|DAILY BEAST
They certainly behave as if that were the matter, and it seems a rational explanation of ordinary insanity, curable or incurable.
The Little City Of Hope|F. Marion Crawford
Here the patient is usually kept during the remainder of the curable stage of his malady.
Curiosities of Civilization|Andrew Wynter
The last variety is curable; the former one scarcely ever so.
Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II|Arnold Cooley
All types are curable, and when upon the non-hairy regions, usually readily so; upon the scalp it is often obstinate.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin|Henry Weightman Stelwagon
In 1725, the mentally ill were classified as curable or incurable.
Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed.|S. A. Reilly

British Dictionary definitions for curable

curable

/ (ˈkjʊərəbəl) /

adjective

capable of being cured

Derived Formscurability or curableness, nouncurably, adverb

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Word Origin and History for curable

curable

adj.

late 14c., from cure (v.) + -able; or from Old French curable (13c.) and directly from Late Latin curabilis, from Latin curare.

Medicine definitions for curable

curable

[ kyur′ə-bəl ]

adj.

Capable of being cured or healed.

curable

adjective

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curable

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