correctable
3
4.8
- adjective
- /kəˈrɛktəbl/
:
corregible
- The errors in your report are correctable with a few revisions.
- a correctable error
- correctable vision problems
They're just trying to help you correct this very correctable, reversible medical problem.
- They're just trying to help you correct this very correctable, reversible medical problem.
- We find out it's something that's correctable and now we can make things better.
- And so it refocuses the story on something that's highly correctable.
- Finally we said what do we have to do to make a one bit error be correctable?
Examples
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He discovered that the damage to the machine was correctable and could be fixed quickly.
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Whatever's wrong with that essay is correctable.
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I think everything is correctable.
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Yet, in the following sections, we offer some solutions to the correctable student and teacher effects.
Academic text (2014) -
But now on to what I think were easily correctable tactical mistakes that cost us this election.
Blog text (9) -
We find out it's something that's correctable and now we can make things better.
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The fact that so many problems can be identified is ominous, but the problems are correctable.
Academic text (1995) -
They're just trying to help you correct this very correctable, reversible medical problem.
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Early detection is essential as some of these conditions are correctable if treated early, whereas if left too late, normal visual development can fail to occur.
Academic text (2014) -
Had my vision been correctable by laser surgery, I’d have long since done it.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
9
2.7
Can be repaired or put right
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6.0
Able to be changed by adding or fixing parts
1
4.9
Able to be fixed
1
6.6
A problem that can be fixed
1
9.5
Able to be fixed or made better
1
3.9
Can be fixed to look or work like before
1
5.2
Able to be changed to be better
Able to be fixed or made right
People can change it later after feedback
Something the law can make right
Antonyms
How Fixable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Correctable is made of correct and -able, where correct means 'to make right' and -able means 'can be done'. So a correctable problem or mistake is something that 'can be made right' or fixed.