preferable
See also: préférable
English
Alternative forms
- præferable (archaic)
- preferrable
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French préférable
Pronunciation
Adjective
preferable (comparative more preferable, superlative most preferable)
- 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
Translations
Better than some other option
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