Word Meanings - DESIRABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Worthy of desire or longing; fitted to excite desire or a wish to possess; pleasing; agreeable. All of them desirable young men. Ezek. xxiii. 12. As things desirable excite Desire, and objects move the appetite. Blackmore.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DESIRABLE)

• Advisable
• Politic
• judicious
• expedient
• desirable
• wise
• prudent
• beneficial
• profitable
• Befitting
• Fitting
• decent
• becoming
• suitable
• appropriate
• proper
• consistent
• Eligible
• Capable
• worthy
• preferable
• choice
• prime
• Goodly
• Pleasant
• excellent
• fair
• considerable
• graceful
• fine
• Grateful
• agreeable
• acceptable
• pleasurable
• gratifying
• cheerful
• enlivening
• sportive
• delicious
• delectable
• jocular
• satisfactory
• exquisite
• merry

Related words: (words related to DESIRABLE)

• ACCEPTABLE
  Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• PRIMEVALLY
  In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally. Darwin.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• CHOICELY
  1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak. 2. In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton.
• MERRY-ANDREW
  One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Note: This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who
• GRACEFUL
  Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.
• SATISFACTORY
  1. Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation. 2. Making amends, indemnification,
• ELIGIBLE
  1. That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office. 2. Worthy to be chosen or selected; suitable; desirable; as, an eligible situation for a house. The more eligible of the two
• BENEFICIAL
  Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate. Kent. 3. King. "A beneficial foe." B. Jonson. Syn. -- See Advantage. (more info) 1. Conferring benefits; useful; profito. The war which
• PROFITABLE
  Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor.
• POLITICLY
  In a politic manner; sagaciously; shrewdly; artfully. Pope.
• GOODLYHEAD; GOODLYHOOD
  Goodness; grace; goodliness. Spenser.
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• POLITICALLY
  1. In a political manner. 2. Politicly; artfully. Knolles.
• EXPEDIENTIAL
  . Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy. "Calculating, expediential understanding." Hare. -- Ex*pe`di*en"tial*ly , adv.
• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• MERRYMAKING
  Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
• SPORTIVE
  Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n.
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• UNCAPABLE
  Incapable. "Uncapable of conviction." Locke.
• INCAPABLE
  Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• INGRATEFUL
  1. Ungrateful; thankless; unappreciative. Milton. He proved extremely false and ingrateful to me. Atterbury. 2. Unpleasing to the sense; distasteful; offensive. He gives . . . no ingrateful food. Milton. -- In"grate`ful*ly, adv. -- In"grate`ful*ness,
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
• METROPOLITICAL
  Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair. Bp. Hall.
• INELIGIBLE
  Not eligible; not qualified to be chos Burke.
• IMPOLITICNESS
  The quality of being impolitic.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne