marriageable

comparative more marriageable · superlative most marriageable

1. Suitable for marriage.

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   The acting which one sometimes meets with on the stage, when an attempt is made to convey an idea of the cunning of a designing mamma in her efforts to please a marriageable man, and the arts and efforts of young miss herself to secure his regards, fall infinitely short of the reality of actual life.

   1842, Pictures of Popular People, pages 13–14

   Marry money, thought I to myself, who will he marry? then in my own mind I made a review of all the marriageable heiresses, and heiresses apparent, not only in Silveryville, but likewise, in a circuit several miles around it, and I could not find one among them all, who was not already engaged to be married to somebody else.

   1861, G. Fort, “Our First Newspaper”, in We Four Villagers. A Tale of Domestic Life in Pennsylvania., Philadelphia, Pa.: J. S. McCalla, […], page 60

   Synonyms: marriable, marryable · Antonyms: unmarriageable

plural marriageables

1. One who is suitable for marriage.