Desirable vs Shipshape - What's the difference?
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Suitable]], worthy to be [[desire#Verb, desired.
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A thing that people want; something that is desirable.
meticulously neat and tidy
* 1937 , , 01:44:00:
Organized, serviceable, trained and ready for action
Desirable is a related term of shipshape.
As adjectives the difference between desirable and shipshape
is that desirable is wanted while shipshape is meticulously neat and tidy.desirable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
Antonyms
* undesirableNoun
(en noun)- There are plenty of desirables on display in the window.
shipshape
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- -- When are you going out fishing again? -- Oh, in about six weeks, when we're shipshape aloft.