treatable
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English tretable, from treten (“treat”) and Old French traitable, Anglo-Norman tretable; equivalent to treat + -able.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
[edit]treatable (comparative more treatable, superlative most treatable)
- 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.
- (dated) Not intractable; moderate.
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