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treatable

adj

Etymology

From Middle English tretable, from treten (“treat”) and Old French traitable, Anglo-Norman tretable; equivalent to treat + -able.

  1. derived from tretable
  2. derived from traitable
  3. inherited from tretable

Definitions

  1. Able to be treated

    Able to be treated; not incurable.

    • In the 1980s, AIDS was not a treatable disease, and as a consequence the mortality rate at that time was very high.

  2. Not intractable

    Not intractable; moderate.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA