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danceable

danceable

3 3.2
Music that has a strong rhythm and makes people want to dance
  • adjective
  • /ˈdænsəbl/
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  • The DJ played a mix of danceable tracks that got everyone on the floor.
  • danceable music
  • danceable album
  • danceable tune

You know, they they rhymes and they hip hop was danceable.

Examples

  • The beat is simple and danceable within a contemporary highlife idiom.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Mr. Ramos encourages musicians to make their own scary music and list it on his site HalloweenMusicLives.com, which is dedicated to providing great danceable music for the month of October when all the ghouls, goblins, vampires, monsters, and the living dead throw parties.

    Blog text (6)
  • We just made it danceable.

  • The Skeleton Dance is a fun and danceable way to work on learning parts of the body.

    Blog text (33)
  • They made two or three political numbers like that that sold a lot because they were danceable.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Why don't you sing us something that's danceable?

  • The netting could always be switched for blue, and the dress wouldn't lose its happy, danceable quality.

    Blog text (4)
  • It's bolder and has more danceable tunes, but still retains the elements we love about these talented girls.

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  • By transforming this scene into danceable music, Santos transforms her private "disgrace" into her public success.

    Academic text (2004)
  • With a sense of the 80s but updated for now, their layers of synth and guitars have a distinctly danceable flavor and vibe.

    Blog text (33)

Synonyms

dancy
vsdanceable
  • Informal
4.3

Having a strong beat that makes people want to dance

is suitable in rhythm or quality for moving to music

How Danceable

irresistible
88 3.8
danceable
3 3.2
mellow
46 3.9

Surface Forms

danceable positive

Morphology

danceable = dance (transparent) = dance + able

Standard adjectival formation from 'dance' with '-able' meaning 'suitable for or able to be danced to', which is directly inferable by learners.

Etymology

Danceable comes from the simple word dance and the ending -able. Dance means 'to move to music' and -able means 'able to', as in readable, so danceable means 'able to be danced to', or music you can dance to.