curable

[ kyoor-uh-buhl ]

/ 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

OTHER WORDS FROM curable

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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How to use curable in a sentence

At sixteen, he writes with all a youth's solemnity of "a hurt of the heart uncurable."
Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14)|Elbert Hubbard
How easily may many a disease be cured, if it be taken in time, which afterwards is uncurable!
A Christian Directory (Volume 1 of 4)|Richard Baxter
It is supposed that she is uncurable by all wise and rational means of persuasion.
A Christian Directory (Part 2 of 4)|Richard Baxter
Where defects are uncurable, the teacher must show how they may be palliated and sometimes even converted into graces.
A Treatise on the Art of Dancing|Giovanni-Andrea Gallini

Was she responsible for the "hurt of the heart uncurable," of which he wrote a few months later?
The Mother of Washington and Her Times|Sara Agnes Rice Pryor

British Dictionary definitions for curable

curable

/ (ˈkjʊərəbəl) /

adjective

capable of being cured

Derived forms of curable

curability or curableness, nouncurably, adverb

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