remediable
English
Etymology
From Middle English remediable, from Old French remedïable and Latin remediābilis. By surface analysis, remediate + -able, or perhaps remedy + ‑able.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹəˈmidiəbəl/
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Adjective
remediable (comparative more remediable, superlative most remediable)
- 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
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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /remeˈdjable/ [re.meˈð̞ja.β̞le]
- Rhymes: -able
- Syllabification: re‧me‧dia‧ble
Adjective
remediable m or f (masculine and feminine plural remediables)
Further reading
- “remediable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024