preferred

[preferred]

Something preferred is something you like to do or want to do more than something else: preferred things are valued above the rest.

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Adjective S.
more desirable than another; "coffee is preferable to tea"; "Danny''s preferred name is `Dan''"

Adjective S.
preferred above all others and treated with partiality; "the favored child"


imp. & p. p.
of Prefer


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Usage Examples

My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!

Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.

It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.

I've always preferred food be on the blander side.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Republicans would have preferred the court overturn the health care bill, an act that would have underscored Obama's biggest liability - the perception among voters, including those who like and trust him, that he has been ineffective.

I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

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