timeworthy

adj

timeworthy

adj

Etymology From time + -worthy.

1

Deserving of time or deserving of time required

  • New features coming in may replace others not as timeworthy.1997, M. Robbins, Writing Simulations, page 48:
  • I had the impression, not uncommon to foreigners in Russia, that my entrance had interrupted a conversation of timeworthy importance, a secret meeting perhaps, a conclave.2012, Godfrey Blunden, A Room on the Route:
1 more example
  • 'Then we thank you. Please let us know if you need anything to make your ship timeworthy. I think we can expect you to be on your way in, let us say, ten hours?'2014, Barrington J. Bayley, Barrington Bayley SF Gateway Omnibus:
Related terms
worthwhile

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