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presentable

/pɹəˈzɛntəbəl/

presentable adjective: in good enough shape to be shown or offered to other people; tidy; attractive.

Adjective

presentable (comparative more presentable, superlative most presentable)

  1. In good enough shape to be shown or offered to other people; tidy; attractive.
    • Before we go out, let me just go to the washroom and make myself presentable.
    • Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints. When they...1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC
  2. Acceptable; worth considering.
    • Liverpool took control of what had been a tight game, with Bruno Fernandes and Marcus Rashford missing presentable chances, when former Old Trafford target Cody Gakpo applied a smooth finish to Andy Robertson's perfect pass two minutes before the break.2023 March 5, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 7-0 Manchester United”, in BBC Sport
  3. Capable of being presented to a church living.

presentable meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

presentable in Tamil

அறிமுகப்படுத்தத்தக்க, செப்பம் வாய்ந்த, பரிசாகக் கொடுக்கத்தக்க

presentable in Bengali

উপস্থাপনের যোগ্য, মার্জিত ও পরিপাটি

presentable in Malayalam

കാണിക്കാവുന്ന, അവതരണയോഗ്യമായ, സമ്മാനിക്കത്തക്ക, ഉചിതമായ

presentable in Kannada

ದರ್ಶನೀಯ, ನೋಡಲು ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿರುವ, ಕಾಣಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಯೋಗ್ಯವಾದ, ತೋರಿಸತಕ್ಕ, ನೋಡತಕ್ಕ

Examples of presentable in a sentence

  • The landscapers rolled sod onto the bare earth and made a presentable lawn by nightfall.
  • After several days in the bush, he had grown lax with his barbering and needed a good shave before he was presentable again.
  • My job was to make them look presentable and, of course, sellable.

All 10 example sentences with presentable

Forms of presentable

comparativemore presentable
superlativemost presentable

Origin of presentable

From Middle French presentable, from Old French, as if present + -able.

Words formed from presentable

Questions about presentable

What does presentable mean?
Presentable means in good enough shape to be shown or offered to other people; tidy; attractive.
What is presentable in Tamil?
Presentable in Tamil is அறிமுகப்படுத்தத்தக்க, செப்பம் வாய்ந்த, பரிசாகக் கொடுக்கத்தக்க. See Presentable meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is presentable?
Presentable is an adjective.
How do you pronounce presentable?
Presentable is pronounced /pɹəˈzɛntəbəl/ (UK).

Words near presentable in the dictionary

  1. present value
  2. present values
  3. present-day
  4. present-participial
  5. presentability
  6. presentable
  7. presentableness
  8. presentably
  9. Presentacion
  10. presental
  11. presentaneous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: presentable (page history and authors); presentable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); presentable (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); presentable (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); presentable (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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