What does curable mean?

curable means "able to be cured or healed". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in curable?

curable has 3 syllables: cur-a-ble. The stress falls on "cur". In IPA it is /ˈkjʊɹəbəl/.

What is the opposite of curable?

The recorded antonyms are incurable.

Is curable a common word?

curable is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with curable?

1 word rhymes with curable. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.

curable — meaning, pronunciation and 2 definitions

adjective

2 sensesA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
able to be cured or healed
“curable diseases”
Antonymsincurable
2.
capable of being hardened by some additive or other agent
Similartempered

Questions about curable

What does curable mean?: curable means "able to be cured or healed". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.
How many syllables are in curable?: curable has 3 syllables: cur-a-ble. The stress falls on "cur". In IPA it is /ˈkjʊɹəbəl/.
What is the opposite of curable?: The recorded antonyms are incurable.

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