remediable

English

Etymology

From Middle English remediable, from Old French remedïable and Latin remediābilis.

Adjective

remediable (comparative more remediable, superlative most remediable)

1. Capable of being remedied.
   • 1955, Edmund Wilson, The shock of recognition, page 381:

     Then from his cavernous armpit drew and gave The singing leaves, not such as erst I knew, But strange, disjointed, where the unmeasured feet Staggered allwhither in pursuit of rhyme, And could not find it; assonance instead, Cases and verbs misplaced—remediable those — Broad-shouldered coarseness, fondly meant for wit.

Translations

capable of being remedied

• Bulgarian: излечим (bg) (izlečim)
• Hungarian: orvosolható (hu)

Spanish

Adjective

remediable m or f (masculine and feminine plural remediables)

1. remediable

Further reading

• “remediable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014