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desirably

adv
/dɪˈzaɪ(j)əɹəbli/UK

Etymology

From desire + -ably.

  1. derived from dēsīderō — “to long for, desire, feel the want of, miss, regret”
  2. derived from desirer
  3. inherited from desir
  4. suffixed as desirably — “desire + ably”

Definitions

  1. in a manner likely to arouse desire

    • How much funkiness makes a pinot taste desirably complex, and how much more really is too much? Is a pinot good if it does not taste more like fruit than stones?
    • The men were princely dressed in pin striped suits, fedora hats and broad toe shoes with patterned vamps. I had only seen these desirably dressed men as moving watercolor images in Velvet Rose magazines.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA