salvageable

Worth the effort

Salvageable describes something that can be saved, recovered, or rescued from loss or destruction.

A salvageable car after an accident has enough value to repair rather than total.

A salvageable relationship still has enough good in it to be worth saving.

Is any of this data salvageable?

The word implies damage has occurred but recovery remains possible.

repairable

fixable

Capable of being mended

patchable · serviceable · refurbishable · rebuildable · reusable · functional · workable · operable · recoverable · retrievable

redeemable

recoverable

Able to be regained

retrievable · extractable · repurposable · recyclable · convertible · transformable · valuable · worthwhile · promising · improvable

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recoverability

salvageableunsalvageable

Impossible to recover

irrecoverable · lost · beyond repair · hopeless · ruined

moral/spiritual redemption

salvageableirredeemable

Impossible to reform

incorrigible · beyond redemption · lost · damned · unreformable

Family

unsalvageable

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