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remediable

/ˈrɛmədɪəbəl/
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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.

Definitions of remediable
  1. adjective
    capable of being remedied or redressed
    remediable problems”
    “a remediable setback”
    “not a crime but only a remediable blunder”
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    antonyms:
    irremediable
    impossible to remedy or correct or redress
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