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Worthy of desire or longing; fitted to excite desire or a wish to possess; pleasing; agreeable. All of them desirable young men. Ezek. xxiii. 12. As things desirable excite Desire, and objects move the appetite. Blackmore.

The quality of being desirable. The desirableness of the Austrian alliance. Froude.

Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift.

The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.

Despicable; contemptible. [R.]

Determined by destiny; fated. Chaucer.

Destructible. [R.] Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.

That can be detached.

Capable of being detected or found out; as, parties not detectable. "Errors detectible at a glance." Latham.

Capable of being determined, definitely ascertained, decided upon, or brought to a conclusion. Not wholly determinable from the grammatical use of the words. South.

Capability of being determined; determinability.

Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices. Thou hast defiled my sanctuary will all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations. Ezek. v. 11.

The quality or state of being detestable.

Capable of being developed. J. Peile. Developable surface (Math.), a surface described by a moving right line, and such that consecutive positions of the generator intersect each other. Hence, the surface can be developed into a plane.

Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived.

Avoidable. [Obs.]

That may be devoured.

Devilry; sorcery or incantation; a diabolical deed; mischief.

Capable of being dug.

Capable of expansion; that may be dilated; -- opposed to contractible; as, the lungs are dilatable by the force of air; air is dilatable by heat.