desirable

[De*sirĀ·a*ble]

If something is desirable it is worthy, so many people might want it. If you're hoping for one of the most desirable roles in a play, you have to have an excellent audition.

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Worthy of desire or longing; fitted to excite desire or a wish to possess; pleasing; agreeable.

Adjective
worth having or seeking or achieving; "a desirable job"; "computer with many desirable features"; "a desirable outcome"

Adjective S.
worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse; "the parents found the girl suitable for their son"


v. t.
Worthy of desire or longing; fitted to excite desire or a wish to possess; pleasing; agreeable.


Desirable

De*sir"a*ble , a. [F. d'82sirable, fr. L. desiderabilis. See Desire, v. t.] Worthy of desire or longing; fitted to excite desire or a wish to possess; pleasing; agreeable.
All of them desirable young men.
As things desirable excite Desire, and objects move the appetite.

Worthy of desire or longing; fitted to excite desire or a wish to possess; pleasing; agreeable.

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Usage Examples

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.

Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future.

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.

It is only by the rational use of technology to control and guide what technology is doing that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

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