Presentable

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Presentable \Pre*sent"a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. pr['e]sentable.]
     1. 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]
  
     2. Admitting of the presentation of a clergiman; as, a church
        presentable. [R.] --Ayliffe.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  presentable
       adj : fit to be seen; "presentable clothes"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  78 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  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.