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Preferable

Worthy to be preferred or chosen before something else; more desirable; as, a preferable scheme.

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Desirable 84% connected

Worthy of desire or longing; fitted to excite desire or a wish to possess; pleasing; agreeable.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Desirable 84% connected

Worthy of desire or longing; fitted to excite desire or a wish to possess; pleasing; agreeable.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Preferred 92% connected

of Prefer

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Advance verb · 78% connection

To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted.

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Agriculturalist noun · 78% connection

An agriculturist (which is the preferred form.)

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Another pron. & a. · 78% connection

Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; any one else; some one else.

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Antisocial personality disorder noun · 78% connection

a personality disorder characterized by amorality and lack of affect; capable of violent acts without guilt feelings (‘psychopathic pe…

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Appetible adjective · 78% connection

Desirable; capable or worthy of being the object of desire.

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Appurtenance noun · 78% connection

That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in commo…

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Ceremonial adjective · 78% connection

Observant of forms; ceremonious. [In this sense ceremonious is now preferred.]

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: worthy, preferred, chosen, before, else.
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Ceremonious adjective · 78% connection

Consisting of outward forms and rites; ceremonial. [In this sense ceremonial is now preferred.]

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Change verb · 78% connection

To alter by substituting something else for, or by giving up for something else; as, to change the clothes; to change one's occupation…

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Choice superl. · 78% connection

Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable.

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Com- unknown · 78% connection

A prefix from the Latin preposition cum, signifying with, together, in conjunction, very, etc. It is used in the form com- before b, m…

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Commend verb · 78% connection

To recommend as worthy of confidence or regard; to present as worthy of notice or favorable attention.

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Communism noun · 78% connection

A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the p…

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Condition noun · 78% connection

That which must exist as the occasion or concomitant of something else; that which is requisite in order that something else should ta…

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Dependent adjective · 78% connection

Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will,…

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Design noun · 78% connection

A plan or scheme formed in the mind of something to be done; preliminary conception; idea intended to be expressed in a visible form o…

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Device noun · 78% connection

That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem;…

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Eligible adjective · 78% connection

Worthy to be chosen or selected; suitable; desirable; as, an eligible situation for a house.

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