rehabilitable

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adjective

Able to be rehabilitated

Scrabble 20

Meanings

adjectiverehabilitable (comparative more rehabilitable, superlative most rehabilitable)

comparative more rehabilitable · superlative most rehabilitable · alternative rehabilitatable

  1. Able to be rehabilitated

    The patient with the latter carries an obvious stigma as the one less likely to be fully rehabilitable for social usefulness.

    2011, Irving Louis Horowitz, Culture and Civilization: Volume 2: Beyond Positivism and Historicism
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    Even if rational people conclude that the death penalty is a deterrent, that it is not administered with unnecessary pain, that there are criminals who are not rehabilitable, that it is less expensive than prison, it still violates the Eighth Amendment?

    2011, Michael Meltsner, Cruel and Unusual: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment

Origin

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APA

rehabilitable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rehabilitable

MLA

“rehabilitable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rehabilitable. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rehabilitable,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rehabilitable.

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