repairable

English

Etymology

From repair +‎ -able.

Adjective

repairable (comparative more repairable, superlative most repairable)

1. Able to be repaired.

   Synonyms: reparable, fixable, mendable, rectifiable

   Luckily, the damage from the accident was repairable.

   • 1961 November, “Editorial: Inter-Regional diesel locomotive operation”, in Trains Illustrated, page 641:

     Even though W.R. locomotives would always be maintained in W.R. territory, "foreign" depots must be capable of attending to any repairable defects that might occur while the Western units are "abroad"; [...].

Derived terms

• repairability

Translations

able to be repaired — see reparable

References

• “repairable”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.