Meanings
comparative more desirably · superlative most desirably
- 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?
2004, John Winthrop Haeger, North American Pinot Noir, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 1501 more example
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.
2020, Veronica Purcell, The Fourth Zaldizko (Seriphyn Knight Chronicles; book 2), Katarr Kanticles Press, page 7
Origin
Translations
Catalan desitjablement
- desitjablementin a manner likely to arouse desire
French désirablement
- désirablementin a manner likely to arouse desire
Spanish deseablemente
- deseablementein a manner likely to arouse desire
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desirably. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/desirably
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