absolvable

Able to pardon

Absolvable describes something that can be forgiven or pardoned.

A sin may be absolvable through confession; a debt absolvable through payment.

The word implies that guilt or obligation, while real, is not permanent: He hoped his mistakes were absolvable.

forgivable

pardonable

Warranting forgiveness

remissible · understandable · minor · petty · tolerable · allowable · overlooked · dismissible · trivial · negligible

exonerable

clearable

Able to be removed

dismissible · defensible · justifiable · blameless · not guilty · unchargeable

redeemable

atonable

Capable of redemption

rectifiable · amendable · recoverable · restorable · reconcilable · correctable · fixable

releasable

dischargeable

Able to be released

clearable

Opposites
capacity for forgiveness

absolvableunforgivable

Cannot be pardoned

unpardonable · inexcusable · beyond redemption · inexpiable · unexcusable

moral severity

absolvablemortal sin

Grace-destroying spiritual offense

cardinal sin · heinous · beyond the pale

Family

resolve, solution, solved, absolve, dissolving, dissolved, solvent, solving, solvable

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