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adjectiveworth having or wanting; pleasing, excellent, or fine: a desirable apartment. arousing desire or longing: a desirable man or woman. advisable; recommendable: a desirable law. nouna person or thing that is desirable. Origin of desirable1350–1400; Middle English <Old French. See desire, -able OTHER WORDS FROM desirablede·sir·a·bil·i·ty, de·sir·a·ble·ness, nounde·sir·a·bly, adverbDictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for desirableI listed the acceptable outcomes as three, in order of desirability. What To Do In Syria|Hussein Ibish|June 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST One can disagree with the desirability or the consequences of some of these goals. What's So Wrong With BDS?|Jerry Haber|February 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST Socially, too, making yourself a bit scarce increases your desirability, but mainly it suits your increasingly private nature. The Stars Predict Your Week|Starsky + Cox|September 10, 2011|DAILY BEAST But as the desirability of a technology increases, she said, so too does its effectiveness along with the willingness to use it. Women | Tools | Technology: Out of the Shadows and Into the Light|Daily Beast Promotions|March 15, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Instantly, all his powers of reflection flew to the winds, and he thought only upon the desirability of getting help at once. The Empty House And Other Ghost Stories|Algernon Blackwood But the stereotyped use of the bordure wavy in England with a set meaning, gives to the wavy variety a lack of desirability. The Handbook to English Heraldry|Charles Boutell The desirability of extension of this service is constantly in review. Report of the National Library Service for the Year Ended 31 March 1958|G. T. Alley and National Library Service (New Zealand) Jealousy places the desirability of its subject above everything. Mlle. Fouchette|Charles Theodore Murray It is worthy of note that I had never up to this time considered the desirability of marriage. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 (of 6)|Havelock Ellis
British Dictionary definitions for desirable
adjectiveworthy of desire or recommendationa desirable residence arousing desire, esp sexual desire; attractive nouna person or thing that is the object of desire Derived forms of desirabledesirability or desirableness, noundesirably, adverbCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to desirablebeautiful, enticing, fascinating, profitable, beneficial, useful, helpful, acceptable, gratifying, expedient, preferable, enviable, worthwhile, adorable, alluring, charming, fetching, sexy, covetable, advisable |