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roadworthy

roadworthy

1 3.9
Safe and fit to drive on public roads
  • adjective
  • /ˈroʊdˌwɜrði/
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  • The mechanic certified the car as roadworthy after completing the necessary repairs.
  • car is roadworthy

Examples

  • But the hubs and brakes will need to be reconsidered to make these vehicles truly roadworthy in winter.

    Blog text (4)
  • Does this "car" really meet all the standards to be roadworthy in Japan?

    Blog text (23)
  • The car is not roadworthy, a fact known to A at the time of purchase.

    Academic text (2018)
  • I intended to spend several thousand dollars to get the car approved as roadworthy.

    Academic text (2018)
  • What exactly makes it a "roadworthy car"?

    Blog text (23)
  • The driver will probably die in the slowest car crash, but I guess it only needs to meet the most basic of the basic roadworthy features.

    Blog text (23)
  • The Jeffery will also get "special signage" until the day the special buses are OOS and whatever is roadworthy shows up.

    Blog text (8)
  • September 26, 2012 (New York) - Introducing "Mirai," featured in the new Guinness World Records 2013 book for being the lowest roadworthy car.

    Blog text (23)
  • She'd want to know all about his getting the car back, so over dinner he'd recount how he'd spotted his car in traffic, and his surprise that it was still roadworthy.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • Another analogy is that the climatologists are saying, OK, the car has a scratch on the door and a dent in the boot, the tyres may be a little bald, depending on how you define bald, but the car is basically still sound and entirely roadworthy.

    Blog text (22)

Synonyms

drivable
vsroadworthy
3 3.4

Something a person can drive or a car can travel on

is focused on safety and suitability for driving on public roads
roadable
vsroadworthy
7.3

Able to be driven on public roads like a car

is about being safe and fit for public-road driving rather than just usable

Antonyms

93 1.1

Likely to cause harm to people or damage to things

How Roadworthy

excellent
1.0
roadworthy
1 3.9
well-kept
7 1.8
marginal
35 4.9
unsafe
93 1.1

Surface Forms

roadworthy positive

Morphology

roadworthy = road + worthy (transparent) = road + worthy

The meaning 'suitable for driving on public roads' follows directly from 'road' + 'worthy' where 'worthy' here means 'fit/suitable'.

Etymology

Roadworthy is made of road ('a public way') and worthy ('fit' or 'deserving'). So it means 'fit for the road', which is why we use it for a vehicle that is safe and suitable to drive.