curable Definition
cur·able (kyo̵or′ə bəl)
adjective
that can be cured
curable Related Forms
cur′·abil′·ity (-bil′ə tē) noun
curable Synonyms
curable
modif.
curable Usage Examples
Preposition: with
- antibiotic: TB is now curable with antibiotics that must be taken for at least six months.
- therapy: It is curable with multi-drug therapy and after only a few days on treatment, sufferers are no longer infectious.
Modifies a noun
- illness: Private Medical Insurance is designed to cover only treatment for curable, short term illness or injury.
- disease: About 17 million children die every year from easily curable diseases.
- cancer: Yes, it is one of the most curable cancers around ( 95 percent of cases cured ).
- condition: Private health insurance Private medical policies provide cover for the costs of private medical treatment for curable, short-term medical conditions.
- STD: CONCLUSIONS Differences between trial populations included higher reported risk behavior and higher rates of curable STD in Mwanza compared to Rakai and Masaka.
- coating: This paper will reveiw the background to the development of UV curable powder coatings and the current status of the technology.
Modifying Another Word
- potentially: The great majority of tumors are potentially curable in their early stages.
- easily: About 17 million children die every year from easily curable diseases.
- highly: The patients who relapse are regrettably many for only 25 % of the total ovarian population present with the highly curable stage 1 disease.
- now: TB is now curable with antibiotics that must be taken for at least six months.
- not: Patients with cancer that is not curable often want to know how long they have left to live.
- usually: Both develop in cells that produce thyroid hormones, but papillary cancer tends to grow slowly and is usually curable.
Used with adjective complement
become: Situations can change, medical advances are being made all the time, illness that is now incurable may become curable.

