💘 Attractive for dating 📅 Can be dated

dateable

1 5.8

Someone others want to go out with

adjective
/ˈdeɪtəbl/

Informal

: atractivo

I don't know about Cincinnati, but there are places where the amount of dateable women is about 10 per square inch.

Examples

[Sabrina] I made a list of dateable men for you.

Playing Mona Lisa (2000)
As someone who himself isn't the least bit dateable, we need to talk.

Blog text (2)
What makes one guy dateable and another guy not?

Blog text (2)
If you are a Republican, you may find other Republicans to be the only ones that are "dateable."

Blog text (27)
She might not be dateable.

Inside the Rain (2020)
And that leaves like 2 or 3 dateable women, tops, scattered over an area of 78 square miles.

Blog text (27)
Oh, she's definitely dateable.

Inside the Rain (2020)
I just go out with my friends and have fun, and if it's a fun day (regardless of whether I meet anyone dateable or not), that's a success to me.

Blog text (27)
He is so charming and funny that everyone agrees he's dateable.
With his good looks and sense of humor, many consider him dateable.

Antonyms

unattractive

16 2.5

Not interesting or likely to make people want it

unromantic

8 4.1

Not likely to make people feel love for each other

How Dateable

irresistible

88 3.8

dateable

Informal

1 5.8

attractive

680 1.0

plain

50 2.5

unattractive

37 1.8

Surface Forms

dateable positive

Morphology

dateable = date (semi-transparent) = date + able

Formed from 'date' (romantic appointment) + '-able' and is generally interpretable, but the sense is informal and can be confused with the temporal sense 'able to be dated'.

Etymology

Dateable comes from the word date, meaning 'a meeting for romance', and the ending -able, meaning 'can be'. So a person who is dateable is 'someone you could ask out' or who seems good to go on a date with.