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desirable

[dih-zahy^uhr-uh-buhl]

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adjective

worth having or wanting; pleasing, excellent, or fine: a desirable apartment.

arousing desire or longing: a desirable man or woman.

advisable; recommendable: a desirable law.

noun

a person or thing that is desirable.

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Old French. See desire, -able

Related forms

de·sir·a·bil·i·ty, de·sir·a·ble·ness, noun

de·sir·a·bly, adverb

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It may be desirable to have a given amount of work shared among more people.

Experience in sociology outside of the educational setting is also desirable.

As a general rule, the more exclusive clubs of both species are, the more desirable entry to them becomes.

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It may be desirable to have a given amount of work shared among more people.

Experience in sociology outside of the educational setting is also desirable.

As a general rule, the more exclusive clubs of both species are, the more desirable entry to them becomes.

The color is desirable because it penetrates deeper into living tissue.

Less desirable are the earthquake faults that lie beneath the coastal state.

If the weed is twined around desirable plants, detach it before treating.

The smaller devices are desirable for both patients' peace of mind and surgical innovation.

Everywhere one meets the idea that reading is an activity desirable in itself.

Ability to teach finance and an interest in behavioral and experimental economics are also desirable.

All the desirable countries with a high quality of life are at the high end of taxes….

Moderate rains are desirable because they more readily soak into the ground, watering crops and filling aquifers and wells.

The satellite's polar orbit will allow it to focus on especially desirable regions for human activities.

Spot-treat oxalis in garden areas with glyphosate, taking care to avoid contact with desirable plants.

AltaVista hails the new product as a desirable tool for increasing productivity.

Experience in mentoring undergraduates in research is desirable.

The obverse of these desirable characteristics looks less appealing.

But they've become more desirable as other fish species disappear due to over-fishing.

And sixth is scarcity-things in limited supply are more desirable.

Or use a nonselective herbicide containing glyphosate, taking care to avoid contact with desirable plants.

The new language was simple enough to use, and powerful enough to make it desirable.

The ability to teach an introductory behavioral neuroscience course would be desirable.

Few deny that some land redistribution is desirable.

The fee could be paid in annual installments, which was a desirable option for the town's poor.

Usually those solutions aren't as cut and dried or easy to implement or always a universally desirable as one would like.

Under the right conditions, the desirable microbes that live in every wheel usher the cheese toward ripeness.

Self-extension among robot operators may be desirable in combat but not necessarily in other grave situations.

Prior experiences in undergraduate teaching and course development are desirable.

To produce an unimaginative or derivative work of art, therefore, will not have as desirable an effect on potential partners.

Ferries, junks, and fishing boats dot the seascape and add a desirable sense of scale and human presence to the scene.

Were it not so volatile, no burning fluid could be more desirable.

Sometimes the flavor of the dish will suggest a desirable flavor in a wine.

So, unless you frequently suffer from cold ears, this is probably not a desirable attribute.

Specific areas of professional expertise are open, but clinical experience is desirable.

Scrutiny by greens has forced the government and the developers to take some desirable precautions.

Cover any desirable plants near the weeds with garden fabric.

Companionship, social status, and fashion sense are more desirable than the olfactory ability or intelligence of the breed.

Mulch also blocks weeds, which steal water and nutrients needed by desirable plants.

By the same token, broad data-collection capabilities are what make the internet a desirable advertising medium.

Experience teaching online courses and mathematics education courses is desirable.

Some revaluation of the renminbi remains both desirable and inevitable.

Teach them beter survival tactics, make growing cocaine less desirable.

Originally, this special designated number was a desirable status symbol.

Good design is playing up the beauty of a plant, while downplaying the less desirable features.

Prior teaching experience with undergraduates and post-doctoral research is desirable.

Driving up the price of counterfeit licenses is a desirable outcome for everyone but the criminals seeking them.

Anyone who can make swimming with jellyfish poetic and desirable has performed magic.

Experience in simulation in medical education is desirable.

Experience leading and or supervising federal or state grant projects is highly desirable.

Experience using online instructional technologies desirable.

Ability to teach a course on women and politics also is desirable.

National certification in specialty is highly desirable.

Previous teaching and mentoring experience is highly desirable.

Teaching freshman composition and/or literature desirable.

Expertise in children's or adolescent literature is highly desirable.

Skeptics have questioned whether that is possible, or even desirable.

Previous industry experience and an interest in executive education also are desirable.

It also marries science to the economic machine in a way that may not be entirely desirable.

Expertise in performance management and/or performance budgeting would be highly desirable.

They are hunters that possess the desirable attributes.

Helium, prized for its unique combination of physically desirable qualities, is.

As a result, finding new metal blends with desirable qualities.

For starters, they dispel the myth that searing meat locks in juices and gives you that desirable crust:.

But they will encounter them while using apps that also use the location data to provide a desirable feature.

Grants are more desirable than loans because they do not have to be repaid.

The scientists constructed a box in which a desirable food was hidden behind a trap.

For more modest individuals, the limelight is hardly a desirable place to.

Paradise gardens and battlefields make equally desirable real estate.

Still, some stock in your portfolio is desirable because it provides a higher return than bonds in the long run.

It's also easy to combine with other metals in ways that increase its desirable properties.

If purity is desirable eliminate the money and fame.

Any change in the shape can alter the protein, turning a desirable protein into a disease.

Instead, directors would be in the desirable position of paying for their own mistakes.

These pieces are extremely special, highly desirable and would be a fascinating talking point in any room.

Obviously, the tenure track is the more desirable of the two.

It is indeed desirable to establish a clear division of duties between business and government.

Strong and light is a desirable combination in an engineering material-and particularly so in those materials used in aircraft.

The prototype fuel cells have such desirable features as the ability to recharge and minimum loss of energy while idling.

There is nothing more desirable than an individual who appears interested but can wheel in overly needy actions.

The things that money can buy are merely means to an end-social status-that brings desirable reproductive opportunities.

Adaptability in a rapidly changing world is a desirable quality.

They need to be well designed fashion statements and above all expensive and a desirable item.

Banking on candidates' fears that desirable domains will wind up in the wrong.

Those paying extra can select one of the more desirable seats in the front row or by the emergency exits.

His inability to present himself in a desirable manner should be an example to all the children who looked up to him.

Aspuru-Guzik started the screening process by identifying a known organic semiconductor with desirable properties.

Getting a band's new single loaded onto a hot-selling iPod could prove so desirable that a new type of payola is born.

It is desirable to keep the file on a server that is accessible to all employees who work with the software.

Others will legislate on executive pay, or oblige banks to lend money in ways the state deems desirable.

Providing them with adequate medical care can be important, but educating them would be the more desirable and essential move.

The far more desirable container: a brain-dead body.

Most everyone seems to agree it's not a desirable goal for long term employment.

Desirable destinations draw talented and industrious migrants.

If growing cities were designed at all, desirable objectives might be achievable.

The screening process turned up an organic semiconductor with desirable properties.

Another one should be to secure desirable financial arrangements for you and your family.

Yet the product that had made the town famous has remained as fresh, gorgeous and desirable as ever.

One can make the same statement about any profession, and balance is desirable in all endeavors.

Encouraging banks to think harder about risk management is as desirable as ever.

Not only is this logistically impossible, it is not desirable because it does not render more quality science.

The default toward openness worked previously because mails were more likely to be desirable messages than spam.

Common sense should dictate that higher education would be a highly desirable place to hold an influential position.

Non-whites were left with high-rise blocks and private rental units in the inner city, which at the time were less desirable.

They can come in the form of speakers as well as headphones, which may be more desirable if you have close.

Previous teaching experience at the college/university level desirable but not required.

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World English Dictionary

desirable (dɪˈzaɪərəb^əl)

—*adj*
1.	worthy of desire or recommendation: a desirable residence
2.	arousing desire, esp sexual desire; attractive

—n
3.	a person or thing that is the object of desire

desira'bility

—n

de'sirableness

—n

de'sirably

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

desirable

late 14c., from Fr. désirable (12c.), from désirer (see desire).

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