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rehabilitable

rehabilitable adjective: able to be rehabilitated.

Adjective

rehabilitable (comparative more rehabilitable, superlative most rehabilitable)

  1. Able to be rehabilitated
    • Even if rational people conclude that the death penalty is a deterrent, that it is not administered with unnecessary pain, that there are criminals who are not rehabilitable, that it is less expensive than prison, it still violates the Eighth Amendment?2011, Michael Meltsner, Cruel and Unusual: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment
    • The patient with the latter carries an obvious stigma as the one less likely to be fully rehabilitable for social usefulness.2011, Irving Louis Horowitz, Culture and Civilization: Volume 2: Beyond Positivism and Historicism

Forms of rehabilitable

comparativemore rehabilitable
superlativemost rehabilitable
alternative formrehabilitatable

Origin of rehabilitable

From rehabilitate + -able.

Questions about rehabilitable

What does rehabilitable mean?
Rehabilitable means able to be rehabilitated.
What part of speech is rehabilitable?
Rehabilitable is an adjective.

Words near rehabilitable in the dictionary

  1. Rehab.
  2. rehabbed
  3. rehabber
  4. rehabbers
  5. rehabbing
  6. rehabilitable
  7. rehabilitant
  8. rehabilitants
  9. rehabilitatable
  10. rehabilitate
  11. rehabilitated

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