CURABLE Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

curable

adjective

Definition of curable

as in remediable

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Recent Examples of curable Most thyroid cancers are permanently curable with treatment. — Sara Moniuszko, USA Today, 28 May 2026 And since no one expires from, say, cancer or other now-curable diseases, and bones and organs can be replaced like car parts with artificial spares, people only pass when involved in freak accidents…or take their own lives. — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2026 Fortunately, the disease is curable using a cocktail of antibiotics — and roughly 95% of all people are naturally immune. — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2026 It is considered one of the more curable types of cancer, and Brown-Shuler’s medical team is optimistic about treating him. — Grace Raynor, New York Times, 19 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for curable

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And those hard-material limits are not remediable through belief.

— Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
Others described disciplinary processes that escalated quickly and unpredictably, often tied to subjective assessments of behavior rather than remediable clinical skills.

— Vanessa Grubbs, STAT, 1 June 2026

Definition of remediable

Adjective

Using our research averages as an example, if your firm went from 24 hours to 14 across 91 proposals a year at $200 an hour, that's over $180,000 in recoverable capacity.

— Mark Orttung, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
At the same time, mining operations around the world have generated enormous volumes of low-grade tailings that still contain recoverable metals but remain largely unused.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 24 July 2026

Definition of recoverable

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Responsibility, on Wikipedia, meant that every edit was logged, every disagreement archived, every change reversible.

— Carson Griffith, New Yorker, 30 July 2026
The good news is that many effects of prolonged sitting are reversible with regular movement and exercise.

— Kristen Gasnick, Verywell Health, 29 July 2026

Definition of reversible

Adjective

And newer brands can build easily retrievable content and clean website architecture without worrying about legacy technical debt.

— Tyler Jordan, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
The more intrepid our assertions of individual presence, the more makeshift seem our identities, the less retrievable our origins.

— Patrick R. Crowley, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026

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