desirable

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Is this actually desirable?I was diagnosed with Asperger's in the mid-90s.

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Quick take

worth having or seeking or achieving; "a desirable job"; "computer with many desirable features"; "a desirable outcome"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of desirable gathered in one view.

adjective

worth having or seeking or achieving; "a desirable job"; "computer with many desirable features"; "a desirable outcome"

adjective

worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse; "the parents found the girl suitable for their son"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for desirable.

adjective

worth having or seeking or achieving; "a desirable job"; "computer with many desirable features"; "a desirable outcome"

adjective

worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse; "the parents found the girl suitable for their son"

Example sentences

Is this actually desirable?I was diagnosed with Asperger's in the mid-90s.

A new entrant can't just come into the market and pick off the most desirable customers or the ones that are cheapest to service.

People may have social views that higher taxes are desirable but, as individual economic actors, they will seek to avoid them.

I'm not suggesting that it would be desirable to permanently lose the ability to think on the level of appointments, check-writing, stop-lights, prospectuses, and the rest of the "mundane".

And this by the way is why you need a government to create such rules, because contrary to what people like the man in this article might think, the market equilibrium is not always the most desirable situation.

It's like a car manufacturer arguing they own all car designs that have "good gas mileage AND automatic windows AND bluetooth radio AND leather interior" etc. In the weakest argument the features Apple claims as their own are simply universally desirable features that would be obvious to any designer of such a device.