presentable

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: pre=sent=a=ble
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

presentable, a. [Cf. F. présentable.].

•  Capable or admitting of being presented; suitable to be exhibited, represented, or offered; fit to be brought forward or set forth; hence, fitted to be introduced to another, or to go into society; as, ideas that are presentable in simple language; she is not presentable in such a gown.  [1913 Webster]
•  Admitting of the presentation of a clergiman; as, a church presentable.  Ayliffe.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

presentable, adj.
1 of good appearance; fit to be presented to other people.
2 fit for presentation.

Derivative

presentability n. presentableness n. presentably adv.

DEVIL DICTIONARY

presentable

adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.
In Boorioboola-Gha a man is presentable on occasions of ceremony if he have his abdomen painted a bright blue and wear a cow's tail; in New York he may, if it please him, omit the paint, but after sunset he must wear two tails made of the wool of a sheep and dyed black.

THESAURUS

presentable

Junoesque, OK, acceptable, adequate, admissible, agreeable, all right, allowable, amply endowed, becoming, bequeathable, bestowable, better than nothing, bonny, braw, built, built for comfort, buxom, callipygian, callipygous, comely, communicable, curvaceous, curvy, decent, decorous, devisable, fair, fairish, fit, fitting, giveable, goddess-like, good enough, good-looking, goodish, goodly, impartable, likely, lovely to behold, moderate, not amiss, not bad, not half bad, not so bad, okay, passable, personable, pleasing, pneumatic, polite, pretty good, proper, respectable, satisfactory, shapely, sightly, slender, stacked, statuesque, sufficient, suitable, tidy, tolerable, unexceptionable, unobjectionable, up to scratch, up to snuff, well-bred, well-built, well-favored, well-formed, well-made, well-mannered, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked, workmanlike

ROGET THESAURUS

presentable

Fashion

N fashion, style, ton, bon ton, society, good society, polite society, monde, drawing-room, civilized life, civilization, town, beau monde, high life, court, world, fashionable world, gay world, Vanity Fair, show, manners, breeding, air, demeanor, savoir faire, gentlemanliness, gentility, decorum, propriety, biens_eance, conventions of society, Mrs, Grundy, punctilio, form, formality, etiquette, point of etiquette, dress, custom, mode, vogue, go, rage, prevailing taste, fad, trend, bandwagon, furore, thing, in thing, craze, chic, last word, man of fashion, woman of fashion, man of the world, woman of the world, height of fashion, pink of fashion, star of fashion, glass of fashion, leader of fashion, arbiter elegantiarum, the beautiful people, the fashion set, upper ten thousand, elite, smart set, the four hundred, in crowd, fashionable, in fashion, a la mode, comme il faut, admitted in society, admissible in society, presentable, conventional, genteel, well-bred, well mannered, well behaved, well spoken, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, ladylike, civil, polite, polished, refined, thoroughbred, courtly, distingue, unembarrassed, degage, janty, jaunty, dashing, fast, modish, stylish, chic, trendy, recherche, newfangled, all the rage, all the go, with it, in, faddish, in court, in full dress, in evening dress, en grande tenue, fashionably, for fashion's sake, a la francaise, a la parisienne, a l' anglaise, a l' americaine, autre temps autre mauers, chaque pays a sa guise.