redeemable
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5.6
- adjective
- /rɪˈdiməbl/
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redimible
- You know, for years I keep trying to convince myself… …there's something redeemable in you.
- think he is redeemable
Nothing, nothing at all, nothing redeemable in him.
- Nothing, nothing at all, nothing redeemable in him.
- So for example there are some universal redeemable traits.
- Evil in a sense is is lacking anything we could identify as redeemable.
- I mean, the good news about all of this is that it's people are completely redeemable.
- There's often this framing of a triage system where some countries in the world might be redeemable and maybe we should help those countries to feed themselves.
Examples
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His basic attitude remained: "They" are inferior but redeemable.
Academic text (1991) -
But as long as she was "pure," then she would still be seen as redeemable.
Blog text (27) -
Like all people are redeemable versus what society says is the exact opposite.
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Though unredeemed, the world remains redeemable.
Academic text (1995) -
They would make a man have, you know, made a lot of bad decisions, but you follow him in his journey, and he's redeemable, and you love him.
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There's often this framing of a triage system where some countries in the world might be redeemable and maybe we should help those countries to feed themselves.
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Here's the thing, though: up until that point, the elf has been nothing but a selfish, curmudgeonly, rude oaf who has shown absolutely no redeemable features.
Blog text (33) -
I believe everyone has something redeemable within them, no matter their past mistakes.
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The teacher saw the potential in his students, insisting that they were all redeemable.
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After much reflection, he realized that his past choices were not permanent, and he was indeed redeemable.
Synonyms
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5.2
Able to be changed to be better
Can be helped to become a better person
Can be forgiven if someone shows true regret
Antonyms
How Redeemable
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8.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Redeemable comes from Latin parts re- 'again' and emere 'to buy', and it originally meant 'to buy again'. That's why someone called redeemable is thought to be 'bought back' from their faults — in other words, they can be saved or changed for the better.