salvable

adjective

Definition of salvablenext
as in reparable

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for salvable
  1. reparable
  2. rectifiable
  3. repentant
  4. penitent
Adjective
  • Despite being reparable, malfunctioning coffee machines, electric kettles, irons, and the like were ending up in landfills.
    Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Jan. 2025
  • If hazards stop being rare, stop being predictable, and/or produce damages that aren’t easily reparable (or suggest that a building should not be rebuilt in that location), the existing market structures for both property insurance and property more broadly won’t work.
    Alena Botros, Fortune, 26 June 2024
Definition of reparable
Adjective
  • Considering how fraught things turned through the spring, some will wonder what’s rectifiable.
    Brendan Quinn, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024
  • If any air gets trapped in the pump, this is easily rectifiable by utilizing the unit’s air release valve.
    Kat de Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Feb. 2023
Definition of rectifiable
Adjective
  • In his new statement, Suga took an even more repentant tone, apologizing for damaging his reputation and disappointing fans while opening himself to any further punishment.
    Justin Curto, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Released 24 years after a debut verse on an album no less auspicious than Outkast’s Stankonia, this was a veteran artist taking stock, vividly drawing the lines between the struggling kid and the grateful, repentant adult.
    Christopher R. Weingarten, Rolling Stone, 1 Aug. 2024
Definition of repentant
Adjective
  • But with Cash on the vocals, the song and the man singing are nearly penitent.
    Stephanie Kaloi and James Mercadante, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Eighteen years later, playing the beloved daughter of Al Pacino’s Michael, she is shot dead on the steps of the opera house in Palermo, taking a bullet meant for the belatedly penitent godfather, who now comprehends without any doubt that there is no escaping the sins of his or his relatives’ past.
    Andrew Marzoni, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023
Definition of penitent
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