Roadworthy

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Being able to be driven, or suitable for driving, on the open road.

    "It was one of the rapidest Constitutions ever put together; made, some say in eight days, by Hérault Séchelles and others; probably a workmanlike, roadworthy Constitution enough; — on which point, however, we are, for some reasons, little called to form a judgment."

Example

More examples

"Tom had a second-hand car which was barely roadworthy."

Etymology

From road + -worthy.

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