roadworthy

comparative more roadworthy · superlative most roadworthy

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

   The coupe shrieked as it hit the curve, but Harry managed the twist with precision and the roadworthy car responded.

   1937 July 15, Maxwell Grant, “House of Silence”, in The Shadow

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   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.

   1851, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

   Synonyms: street-legal