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salvageable

adj

Etymology

From salvage + -able.

  1. derived from silvāticus — “wild”
  2. derived from *salvāticus✻
  3. derived from salvatge
  4. borrowed from salvaje
  5. suffixed as salvageable — “salvage + able”

Definitions

  1. Capable of being salvaged, saved or repaired. Worth rescuing and keeping rather…

    Capable of being salvaged, saved or repaired. Worth rescuing and keeping rather discarding or replacing.

    • The car wasn't salvageable after the engine fire. The insurance company totalled it and I bought a new one.
    • Considerable work had to be done by way of repairs and replacement of bricks and woodwork (doors, floors, skirtings and panelling) where these were too far gone to be salvageable, including reprofiling to match originals.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for salvageable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA