remediable

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

/ rɪˈmi di ə bəl /

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adjective

capable of being remedied.

RELATED WORDS

harmless, curable, limited, slight, superficial

Nearby words

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

Origin of remediable

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

Related forms

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

Can be confused

remediable remedial

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Examples 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