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Treatable vs Untreatable - What's the difference?

treatable | untreatable |

As adjectives the difference between treatable and untreatable

is that treatable is able to be treated; not incurable or intractable while untreatable is not treatable; impossible to treat.

treatable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Able to be treated; not incurable or intractable.
  • :In the eighties, AIDS was not a treatable disease, and as a consequence the mortality rate at that time was very high.

    • untreatable

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not treatable; impossible to treat.

    • Derived terms

    * untreatability * untreatably

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