desirable

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Old French desirable. Morphologically desire + -able.

Your presence here was desirable. — His last bow : $b Some later reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
“Do you know where I met these desirable tenants? — A Room with a View, E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
Therefore interchange of students and of books was highly desirable. — Triplanetary, E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

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