remediable
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- nonremediable adjective
- nonremediably adverb
- remediableness noun
- remediably adverb
- unremediable adjective
Etymology
Origin of remediable
1485–95; (< Middle French ) < Latin remediābilis curable. See remedy, -able
Explanation
If it's remediable, then it can be fixed or cured. Your dog's bad breath, dangerous shopping habits, and poison ivy are all remediable afflictions. Remediable is a formal way of describing something that can be fixed up because there's a remedy for it. Horace Mann, the first American advocate of public education, said that “evil is inevitable, but is also remediable” — meaning that even the most rotten kids can be reformed and rehabbed into model citizens. Today's detention hall monitors might disagree.
Vocabulary lists containing remediable
Example Sentences
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It said there had been mistakes at the clinic he led but that they were "easily remediable… and unlikely to be repeated".
From BBC • Jan. 13, 2023
In finding his "fitness to practise impaired", the tribunal decided to impose the "maximum" suspension of 12 months while acknowledging that his "dishonest conduct is remediable" and ruling "erasure" from the profession "would be disproportionate".
From BBC • Jun. 28, 2021
I can help them assess what is pathological and remediable.
From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2020
So my bet is that his ignorance about Islam is just as remediable as his ignorance about homosexuality and the pyramids.
From Slate • Dec. 15, 2015
It’s not necessarily the human condition, I would hope, but a remediable innumeracy which results in this unfortunate tendency.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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