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SEAWORTHY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does seaworthy mean?
• SEAWORTHY (adjective)
The adjective SEAWORTHY has 1 sense:
1. fit for a sea voyage
Familiarity information: SEAWORTHY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fit for a sea voyage
Also:
tight (of such close construction as to be impermeable)
Attribute:
seaworthiness (fitness to traverse the seas)
Antonym:
unseaworthy (unfit for a voyage)
Derivation:
seaworthiness (fitness to traverse the seas)
Context examples
All well, I hope; all shipshape and seaworthy?
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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