rehabilitable

English

Alternative forms

• rehabilitatable

Etymology

rehabilitate +‎ -able

Adjective

rehabilitable (comparative more rehabilitable, superlative most rehabilitable)

1. Able to be rehabilitated
   • 2011, Michael Meltsner, Cruel and Unusual: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment‎^[1]:

     Even if rational people conclude that the death penalty is a deterrent, that it is not administered with unnecessary pain, that there are criminals who are not rehabilitable, that it is less expensive than prison, it still violates the Eighth Amendment?

   • 2011, Irving Louis Horowitz, Culture and Civilization: Volume 2: Beyond Positivism and Historicism‎^[2]:

     The patient with the latter carries an obvious stigma as the one less likely to be fully rehabilitable for social usefulness.