MEANING
Still capable of being saved, recovered, or made useful after damage, danger, or failure.
Use it for
identifying useful remains after a disaster; showing that a ruined place is not entirely lost; describing a relationship that may still be repaired; contrasting recoverable damage with irreversible destructionMarks the boundary between ruin and what can still be saved, physically or figuratively. Writing functions: Ruin / Desolation.
Words that belong together
- salvageable materials
- a salvageable relationship
- remain salvageable
On the page
Only the iron fittings were salvageable after the roof collapsed.
She asked whether the marriage was salvageable before asking where he had been.
Word forms
- Base
- salvageable
Usage notes
Adjective: salvageable materials, a salvageable relationship; remain salvageable. Can be qualified by partly or still. Say more material is salvageable rather than treating the word as an exact damage measurement. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (dictionary-informed qualitative editorial estimate; not a measured frequency).
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