remediable

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

/ rɪˈmi di ə bəl /

capable of being remedied.

Nearby words

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 confusedremediable remedial

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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

Word Origin and History for remediable

adj.

1560s, from Middle French remédiable, from Latin remediabilis "that may be healed, curable," from stem of remediare, from remedium (see remedy (n.)).