SYNONYMS AND RELATED EXPRESSIONS

remediable

adjective

Capable of being corrected or improved.

Local English device voice, when available. This is not a recorded dictionary pronunciation.

Capable of correction

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Remediable means a remedy is possible. Manageable may only mean controllable, and reversible specifically means capable of being undone.

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The formatting problem was remediable with a few careful changes.
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We should be grateful that the damage was remediable.
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Several students had called the whole project hopeless, but Mina pointed to a remediable defect that the team could address with the materials already available.
From Restoring the Workshop.

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