CURABLE Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

curable

adjective

Definition of curable

as in remediable

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Recent Examples of curable Charli isn’t pretending the world’s ills are curable through a sweaty night dancing with friends. — Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 2 June 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for curable

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Adjective

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

Those are meaningful guardrails, but the industry-wide test is whether controls remain understandable, observable and recoverable when one workflow spans several platforms and something fails.

— Robert Kramer, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026
In addition to the vehicle access tower, other recoverable infrastructure include a tank farm, the integration facility building adjacent the pad and a water tower.

— Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of recoverable

Adjective

And once your tasks are small and measured, swapping one model for another is days of retuning, not a rebuild, so the choice stays reversible.

— Marcin Nowak, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Sure, the reversible brown-and-blue Tory Burch version is chic—as is the tri-colored Loewe jacket worth a whopping $3,850.

— Christian Allaire, Vogue, 27 Aug. 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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