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præferable

præferable is the archaic spelling of preferable.

Meaning of preferable

Adjective

preferable (comparative more preferable, superlative most preferable)

  1. Better than some other option; preferred.
    • This work has been the care and ſtudy of ſome years; as far as health, and other affairs, would permit. For, this appeared, to the author, of as much greater importance, than any other hiſtory whatever; as morality and religion are more excellent, than any temporal affairs; and the hiſtory of true...1756, George Benson, “The Præface. To the First Edition.”, in The History of the First Planting of the Christian Religion: Taken from the Acts of the Apostles, and Their Epistles. Together with the...

Forms of præferable

comparativemore præferable
superlativemost præferable

Questions about præferable

What is præferable the archaic spelling of?
Præferable is the archaic spelling of preferable.

Words near præferable in the dictionary

  1. præfect
  2. præfecture
  3. præfectures
  4. præfer
  5. præfer'd
  6. præferable
  7. præference
  8. præferences
  9. præferre
  10. præferred
  11. præferres

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Adapted from Wiktionary: præferable (page history and authors); preferable (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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