Synonyms of merchantable

merchantable

adjective

ˈmər-chən-tə-bəl 

as in marketable

fit to be offered for sale

a logging operation that strips an area of all of its trees, only a small percentage of which will yield merchantable timber

Synonyms & Similar Words

• marketable
• profitable
• valuable
• salable
• expensive
• sellable
• commercial
• fine
• precious
• prime
• premium
• costly
• high-grade
• fancy
• extravagant
• dear

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unsalable
• unmarketable
• damaged
• worthless
• useless
• unsellable
• cheap
• unsatisfactory
• inferior
• nonsalable
• shopworn
• bad
• substandard
• low-grade

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of merchantable

Qualifying timber must be merchantable, which is the market maker’s effort to ensure that offsets aren’t produced with trees that wouldn’t otherwise be cut. — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 26 May 2021

The beetle has devoured 18 million hectares of forest in British Columbia alone, killing 60 percent of its merchantable pine. — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2021

If only one percent of those logs escaped and somehow eluded beachcombers, that means 100 million board feet of merchantable timber became driftwood each year. — Brian Payton, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2018

Today, the land for sale has what's estimated to be 2 million board feet of merchantable timber. — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 26 May 2017