preferable

See also: préférable

English

Alternative forms

• præferable (archaic)
• preferrable

Etymology

From French préférable

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɛf(ə)ɹəb(ə)l/

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• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈfɜːɹəb(ə)l/ (less common)

Adjective

preferable (comparative more preferable, superlative most preferable)

1. Better than some other option; preferred.
   • 2007, Ted Honderich, On political means and social ends, →ISBN, page 94:

     It is not to the point that an inequality of material goods, at high levels, may not be preferable to an equality of material goods at a lower level, precisely for such reasons as self-respect.

Derived terms

• preferably

Translations

Better than some other option

• Catalan: preferible
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 更合意的 (gèng héyì de), 更適宜的 (gèng shìyí de), 更可取的 (gèng kěqǔ de), 較好的 (jiào hǎo de)

• Finnish: parempi (fi)
• French: préférable (fr)
• Georgian: უმჯობესი (umǯobesi), უპირატესი (uṗiraṭesi)
• German: bevorzugt (de)

• Latin: potior
• Norman: préféthabl'ye
• Polish: lepszy (pl) m, odpowiedniejszy m, bardziej odpowiedni m
• Portuguese: preferível
• Romanian: preferabil (ro)
• Russian: предпочти́тельный (ru) (predpočtítelʹnyj)
• Sanskrit: श्रेयस् (sa) (śreyas)
• Spanish: preferible