Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Worth having or seeking, as by being useful, advantageous, or pleasing.
- adjective Worth doing or achieving; advisable.
- adjective Arousing desire, especially sexual desire.
- noun A desirable person or thing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Worthy to be desired; that is to be wished for; fitted to excite a wish to possess.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Worthy of desire or longing; fitted to excite desire or a wish to possess; pleasing; agreeable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Suitable ,worthy to bedesired . - noun A thing that people want; something that is desirable.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse
- adjective worth having or seeking or achieving
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Examples
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Removing these distortions, and thus allowing investment to increase is highly desirable from the point of view of the country, he said.
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A Senate that couldn't enact a law simply to require the disclosure of donors behind ads, as even the Roberts court in Citizens United said would be constitutional and desirable, is unlikely to vote against their political interests next year with a system that funnels public funds to their opponents.
Mark Green: Stemming the Tide of Secret Corporate Money Mark Green 2010
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And positions in desirable funds probably won't be available at a discount for long.
Buyout Shops In Secondary State of Play John Jannarone 2010
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Removing these distortions, and thus allowing investment to increase is highly desirable from the point of view of the country, he said.
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Corporate Survey Sample Questions Please rate your overall impression of these (programs you are familiar with) EMBA programs, i.e. how desirable is a degree from the program?
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Such a change would allow for more competitive contracting in the longer term and may be desirable from the standpoint of cost effectiveness.
David Isenberg: The State Department Takes Charge: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid David Isenberg 2010
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One variation on this theme would just be that the super-rich would tolerate a lot more risk in their investments than desirable from a social perspective, since they are immunized from risk by the fact they are so far past the point of significant marginal returns.
Matthew Yglesias » 400 Families Earned an Average of $345 Million Each in 2007 2010
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To feel and to know that you 'have everything that can make life desirable' is indeed excellent.
Letter 132 2009
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Such a change would allow for more competitive contracting in the longer term and may be desirable from the standpoint of cost effectiveness.
David Isenberg: The State Department Takes Charge: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid David Isenberg 2010
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Prices increase as more people are willing to spend more money in desirable locations.
Energy, Transportation, and Land Use Patterns « PubliCola 2010
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