Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See datable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective that can be given a date. Opposite of undatable.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Suitable for dating (romantic outings); attractive.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective that can be given a date

Etymologies

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date +‎ -able

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Examples

  • Maybe she doesn't want to talk to you specifically after your games for a good reason, you might try and see if that's the case (like does she do that at only the rink, or at other places as well?). eff cat and mouse. but i'm assuming that since you're ... "dateable", she wanted a piece of that. girls are weird like that.

    [Help] Most Recent Posts hockeymaniac500 2010

  • When asked who would be the most "dateable" U.S. politicians, 32% of the men selected Sarah Palin (32%), followed by Christine O'Donnell (22%), M. Teresa Ruiz (18%), Hillary Rodham Clinton (6%), and Condoleeza Rice (5%).

    Julie Spira: Sarah Palin and Gavin Newsome Considered Most Dateable U.S. Politicians Julie Spira 2010

  • When asked who would be the most "dateable" U.S. politicians, 32% of the men selected Sarah Palin (32%), followed by Christine O'Donnell (22%), M. Teresa Ruiz (18%), Hillary Rodham Clinton (6%), and Condoleeza Rice (5%).

    Julie Spira: Sarah Palin and Gavin Newsome Considered Most Dateable U.S. Politicians Julie Spira 2010

  • When asked who would be the most "dateable" U.S. politicians, 32% of the men selected Sarah Palin (32%), followed by Christine O'Donnell (22%), M. Teresa Ruiz (18%), Hillary Rodham Clinton (6%), and Condoleeza Rice (5%).

    Julie Spira: Sarah Palin and Gavin Newsome Considered Most Dateable U.S. Politicians Julie Spira 2010

  • In her 2007 study, results showed that young women who wished to be seen as attractive and highly dateable distanced themselves from feminist labeling.

    Cristen Conger: Do Feminists Make for Better Girlfriends? Cristen Conger 2010

  • How could I have actually believed I was a dateable person?

    Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011

  • The blog also reviewed the schools with the most alcohol consumption, the happiest student bodies, the most dateable student bodies and most nights spent out, among others.

    Party on Mitch : Law is Cool 2009

  • For years after our pathetic nonrelationship, I had regretted my inexperience and lack of appeal, wondering if I could ever bridge the gap between insecure, unsure Andi and this confident Amanda person I should be in order to be truly dateable.

    Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011

  • Not even the passibly-cute chick love interest, who was more like the girl you might meet at an Earth Day rally who wants to help the earth but still likes to shave her legs, so she's still dateable, even though she's not as hot as any girl you know outside of this event but she likes listening to Joy Division so she's kind of interesting.

    This is the stuff teh interwebs are made of... wendigomountain 2009

  • The blog also reviewed the schools with the most alcohol consumption, the happiest student bodies, the most dateable student bodies and most nights spent out, among others.

    2009 May : Law is Cool 2009

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