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remediable

If it's remediable than 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.

DEFINITIONS OF: remediable

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adj capable of being remedied or redressed

remediable problems”
“a remediable setback”
“not a crime but only a remediable blunder”
Antonyms:
irremediable
impossible to remedy or correct or redress
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