desirable

a desirable reform; a desirable outcome.

you're a very desirable woman.

It is most desirable that they should both come.

a desirable job in the film industry; a home computer with many desirable features.

He found her intensely desirable.

commodities made all the more desirable by their rarity.

desirable housing monopolized by the wealthy;

It is most desirable that he should attend the conference.

My desire for a desirable house will come true in the near future.

For this job it is desirable to know something about medicine.

It was also a highly desirable political end. Furthermore, it gave the English a door into France.

Our conclusion seems to be that the question of who is the author of a film cannot be answered in the desirable apodictic fashion.

shotten Recently spawned and thus less desirable as food, e.g. especially said of herring.

The state could charge heftily for acting as lender of last resort—or, less desirable, impose a windfall tax on bank profits or a “Tobin tax” on transactions.

However, being a scripter in this sense is not desirable, and Zope’s developers want to provide a way to help a scripter become a TTW developer.

The replacement for the Dauntless was the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver, a much larger aircraft but with a much less desirable nickname, "Son of a ***, 2nd Class".

We can entice them or offer them something very desirable.

A. a desirable mental state for busy people.

Many transhumanists see this as not only desirable but inevitable.

I still think a more desirable benefit is psychological.

They found that givers reliably chose the desirable gifts.

The position was central and occasionally desirable.

It is most desirable that he should attend the meeting.

It is absolutely possible. Is it desirable?

No. You are very desirable. In a big way.

For that reason, we often use it to talk about something either desirable, unexpected or negative.