restorable

restorable

English

Etymology

restore +‎ -able

Adjective

restorable

1. Capable of being restored or reclaimed
   • 18 March 2013, Max Davidson writing in the Daily Telegraph, Need a four-poster bed? Dormy House hotel auctions off contents

     Don’t dismiss builders’ skips. You may not find a Chippendale desk, but you might collar a restorable sofa. Always ask the builder or house owner for permission first.

   • 1724, Jonathan Swift, The Drapier’s Letters 7

     I may add that absurd practice of cutting turf without any regularity; whereby great quantities of restorable land are made utterly desperate, many thousands of cattle destroyed, the turf more difficult to come at and carry home, and less fit for burning; the air made unwholesome by stagnating pools and marshes; and the very sight of such places offensive to those who ride by.

   restorable memory

Antonyms

• unrestorable

Derived terms

• restorably

References

• restorable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• restorable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913