songworthy

English

Etymology

From song +‎ -worthy.

Adjective

songworthy (comparative more songworthy, superlative most songworthy)

1. Worthy of song or of being sung.
   • 1999, Tim Riley, Hard rain: a Dylan commentary:

     That he comes up a shade self-pitying (he still goes barefoot) is reconciled only by the fact that he's made the subject songworthy this late in his career.

2. Worthy of being sung about.
   • 1873, John Addington Symonds, Studies of the Greek poets: Volume 1:

     [...] which contains this truly beautiful description of a thoroughly successful life as imagined by a Greek: "That man is happy and songworthy by the skilled, who, victorious by might of hand or vigour of foot, achieves the greatest prizes with daring and with strength; [...]