Word Meanings - RETRIEVABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
That may be retrieved or recovered; admitting of retrieval. -- Re*triev"a*ble*ness, n. -- Re*triev"a*bly, adv.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RETRIEVABLE)
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- REPARABLE
Capable of being repaired, restored to a sound or good state, or made good; restorable; as, a reparable injury. - RETRIEVABLE
That may be retrieved or recovered; admitting of retrieval. -- Re*triev"a*ble*ness, n. -- Re*triev"a*bly, adv. - CURABLE
Capable of being cured; admitting remedy. "Curable diseases." Harvey. -- Cur"a*ble*ness, n. -- Cur`a*bly, adv. - RECOVERABLE
Capable of being recovered or regained; capable of being brought back to a former condition, as from sickness, misfortune, etc.; obtainable from a debtor or possessor; as, the debt is recoverable; goods lost or sunk in the ocean are not recoverable. - REDEEMABLENESS
The quality or state of being redeemable; redeemability. - REDEEMABLE
1. Capable of being redeemed; subject to repurchase; held under conditions permitting redemption; as, a pledge securing the payment of money is redeemable. 2. Subject to an obligation of redemtion; conditioned upon a promise of redemtion; payable; - UNCURABLE
Incurable. - IRRETRIEVABLE
Not retrievable; irrecoverable; irreparable; as, an irretrievable loss. Syn. -- Irremediable; incurable; irrecoverable. - IRRETRIEVABLENESS
The state or quality of being irretrievable. - IRRECOVERABLE
Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied; irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury. That which is past is gone and irrecoverable. Bacon. Syn. -- Irreparable; irretrievable; irremediable; unalterable; incurable; hopeless. - INCICURABLE
Untamable. - PRESERVABLE
Capable of being preserved; admitting of preservation. - PREPARABLE
Capable of being prepared. "Medicine preparable by art." Boyle. - INCURABLE
1. Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease. A scirrh is not absolutely incurable. Arbuthnot. 2. Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable - IRREDEEMABLE
Not redeemable; that can not be redeemed; not payable in gold or silver, as a bond; -- used especially of such government notes, issued as currency, as are not convertible into coin at the pleasure of the holder. -- Ir`re*deem"a*ble*ness, adv. - IRREPARABLE
Not reparable; not capable of being repaired, recovered, regained, or remedied; irretrievable; irremediable; as, an irreparable breach; an irreparable loss. Shak. - SECURABLE
That may be secured. - PROCURABLE
Capable of being procured; obtainable. Boyle. - INCURABLENESS
The state of being incurable; incurability. Boyle. - IRREPARABLENESS
Quality of being irreparable.