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treatable

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

adjective more treatable · 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.

Opposite: untreatable

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Opposite: untreatable

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@misc{treatable_2026,
  title = {treatable},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/treatable},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}