Word Finder - desirable

definition

A thing that people want; something that is desirable.

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There are plenty of desirables on display in the window.

definition

Worthy to be desired; pleasing; agreeable.

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This applicant has almost all desirable properties.

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

Secrecy, while occasionally necessary, is less desirable than openness.

She said she did not consider a degree of any real value, but thought it was much more desirable to do something original than to waste one's energies only for a degree.

He seems to have been regarded by his own party as a useful instrument, especially in disagreeable work, rather than as a desirable colleague.

And yet perhaps full success was neither possible nor desirable.

A few words of further explanation may therefore be desirable.

Such dispositions were clearly desirable, even before the event.

The best form of stove is that with which perfect combustion is most nearly attained, and to which a pan of water is affixed to supply a desirable humidity to the air, the gas having the effect of drying the atmosphere.

But the rebuff showed that it was desirable in the interests both of the British government and of Afghanistan that an opportunity should be made for enabling the amir to have personal acquaintance with the highest Indian authorities.

Some relaxation of the disastrous severity seemed desirable, and out of this grew the second great system, which was presently introduced at Auburn and afterwards at the no less renowned prison of Sing Sing.

Soon there will be the most desirable new 3 Series of all, the coupe cabriolet.

Shift, repot and propagate all plants that are desirable.

The workers, who control the polity of the hive (the "queen" being exceedingly "limited" in her monarchy), arrange if possible that young queens shall develop only when the population of the hive has become so congested that it is desirable to send off a swarm.

In 1830 Lord John Russell had given it as his opinion that cellular separation was desirable in all prisons.

From the modern point of view this is unavoidable and even desirable, since " theology " here represents the science of the 1 3 th century.

It was felt that a system of administration which could permit such a catastrophe was no longer desirable.

But, although this is so, it is perhaps hardly desirable to deprive ourselves of the use of two terms instead of one.

As he weighed if he'd be forced to choose between someone he loved and an immortal's mate with a desirable gift, he couldn't help thinking Jade wouldn't take breaking up well.

Of course the sad truth about happiness is that it is entrancing, desirable and maddeningly elusive.

This is why it is not at all desirable to become clairvoyant if one is not pure and capable of self-mastery.

With Volvo upping the style ante and launching a desirable soft top and small coupe soon, it might just happen.

Giving a " socially desirable " answer or the one you think the employer is looking for is dangerous.

Like most disabled people, I will always take the accessible option over all others, including the environmentally desirable ones.

The latest award as most desirable woman is just the latest notch in her belt.

The pleasant unfolding of events makes these dreams quite desirable.

Many desirable behavioral patterns start to emerge as a part of the child's normal development.

Some other desirable behaviors are not part of a child's normal development and need to be modeled and taught by their parents.

Of course pressure could always be obtained by the aid of special reservoirs, but to build these was not always desirable, or even practicable.

It is, indeed, most desirable that men should be nursed by men.

It is perhaps desirable, in an article like this, to treat of algae in the widest possible sense in which the term may be used, an indication being at the same time given of the narrower senses in which it has been proposed to employ it.

While political and ecclesiastical conditions made the breach with Rome possible - and in the view of most Englishmen desirable - Henry VIII.

The best time of the year for felling timber is in midsummer or midwinter, when the sap of the tree is at rest; it is not desirable to cut timber in the spring or autumn.

With increased skill in large castings, and the discovery of the use of cores, by which the fluid bronze was poured into a mere skin-like cavity, hammered or repousse work was only used in the case of small objects in which lightness was desirable, or for the precious metals in order to avoid large expenditure of metal.

Before reviewing the history of these discoveries, it is desirable to say a few words of the characters of the axolotl (larval form) and of the Amblystoma (perfect or imago form).

In any case, it is desirable to diminish the loss of heat as much as possible by polishing the exterior of the calorimeter to diminish radiation, and by suspending it by non-conducting supports, inside a polished case, to protect it from draughts.

It Would Have Been Desirable, If Possible, To Have Tried The Effect Of A Larger Range Of Variation In The Experimental Conditions Of Load And Speed, With A View To Detect The Existence Of Constant Errors; But Owing To The Limitations Imposed By The Use Of A Steam Engine, And The Difficulty Of Securing Steady Conditions Of Running, This Proved To Be Impossible.

The Experimental Evidence, However, Is Somewhat Conflicting, And Further Investigations Are Very Desirable On The Variation Of Specific Heat With Temperature.

It is especially desirable for hospital and ambulance staffs to be inoculated with a vaccine prepared from sterilized cultures of plague bacillus.

Therefore, although the methods of local government are detailed below (Section X.), and other administrative arrangements are described under the various headings dealing with each subject, it is desirable to give here, for ease of reference and distinction, a schedule of the various areas into which England and Wales are divided.

In these cases, after the local inquiry above referred to has been held, the county council, being satisfied that the proposal is desirable, may make an order for the same accordingly.

As to higher education the local education authority must consider the educational needs of their area and take such steps as seem to them desirable, after consultation with the Board of Education, to supply or aid the supply of education other than elementary, and to promote the general co-ordination of all forms of education.

If the board, after considering the report, consider it desirable, they require the county council concerned to prepare a scheme for the provision of small holdings; if the county council decline to prepare a scheme, the board may direct the commissioners to do so.

The explanation that this influence on the leucocytes explained the favourable action of quinine on certain inflammatory processes no longer holds, since we know that the inflammatory conditions are of microbic origin, and that the movements of the leucocytes are not objectionable, but highly desirable as a means of defence against bacteria and their products.

Darwin and others having regarded Lord Morton's mare as affording very strong evidence in support of the infection hypothesis, it was considered some years ago desirable to repeat Lord Morton's experiment as accurately as possible.

The amount yielded, moreover, was considerable, being equal to a penny on the income tax, which it is desirable to maintain as a reserve of taxation.

He remained in Europe, spending most of his time at Paris and holding blank commissions which he was authorized to fill in at his discretion in case the presence of a Confederate commissioner should seem desirable at any particular European court.

Of recent years wealthy natives have been competing with Europeans for the possession of this desirable quarter.

In making such comparisons, it is always desirable, if possible, to select as standards longperiod gauges which are so situated that the short-period district lies.

In some cases, as, for example, when a high earthen embankment crosses a gorge, and there is plenty of stone to be had, it is desirable to place the outer bank upon a toe or platform of rubble stonework, as in fig.

Any stone of which it is desirable to build a masonry dam would certainly pcssess.