reparable
- adjective
- /rɪˈpɛrəbəl/
- After assessing the roof, the contractor stated that the leaks are reparable through a thorough patching process.
Examples
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Assuming Argentina does not pay the accelerated amounts (as it has not), this yields one consolidated and reparable injury: nonpayment of money.
Blog text (16) -
One day of coffee and eating while he spent hours hammering and reboarding the shed, anything reparable that he had broken.
Fiction book (2000) -
Their loss of legitimacy will not be reparable.
Blog text (15) -
Misunderstandings are usually (more or less) reparable.
Academic text (1998) -
Use of the BIT assumes that the intervention is potentially reparable and that there is sufficient documentation about the intervention to make decisions.
Academic text (2004) -
On the other hand, Argentina raised a few eyebrows insisting that an utterly uncollectable money judgment was "reparable"—presumably by adding some uncollectable interest.
Blog text (16) -
The technician assured us that the broken appliance is reparable and can be fixed by the end of the week.
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Although the car sustained significant damage in the accident, the mechanic confirmed it is reparable with the right parts.
Synonyms
Something you can save or fix after damage
Can be repaired or put right
Able to be fixed or made right
A problem that can be fixed
Can be fixed to look or work like before
Able to be fixed or made right
Can be used again after fixing or recharging
Can be fixed after damage or loss
Something the law can make right
Antonyms
How Repairable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Reparable comes from Latin parts re- meaning 'again' and parare meaning 'make ready', and you can see the same root in the word repair. So, if something is reparable, it can be 'made ready again' or simply fixed.