treatable

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adjective

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.”

Opposite
untreatable
OriginMiddle English tretable ← Old French traitable ← Anglo-Norman tretable →
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Meanings

adjectivetreatable (comparative more treatable, superlative most treatable)

comparative more treatable · superlative most treatable

  1. 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. datedNot intractable; moderate.

Synonyms & antonyms

Opposite
untreatable

Origin

  1. Anglo-Normantretable
  2. Old Frenchtraitable
  3. Middle Englishtretable
  4. Englishtreatable

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

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APA

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Chicago

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