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remediable

[ ri-mee-dee-uh-buh l ]

/ rɪˈmi di ə bəl /

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adjective

capable of being remedied.

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Origin of remediable

1485–95; (< Middle French) < Latin remediābilis curable. See remedy, -able

OTHER WORDS FROM remediable

re·me·di·a·ble·ness, nounre·me·di·a·bly, adverbnon·re·me·di·a·ble, adjectivenon·re·me·di·a·bly, adverb

un·re·me·di·a·ble, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH remediable

remediable remedial

Words nearby remediable

remaster, rematch, remblai, rembrandt, reme, remediable, remedial, remedial reading, remediation, remediless, remedy

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Example sentences from the Web for remediable

But such trifles, after all, were accidental and remediable.
Song of the Lark|Willa Cather
But all this was remediable, even rapidly remediable, as soon as the people recovered their vitality.
The New Germany|George Young
And the school knows, too, the preventive and remediable natures of these defects.
On the Firing Line in Education|Adoniram Judson Ladd
The only question is whether they act directly or indirectly: this question determines whether it is remediable.
Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884.|Various

I do not express my sense of our misfortunes from any idea that they are remediable.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson

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