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Enviable vs Desirable - What's the difference?

enviable | desirable |

As adjectives the difference between enviable and desirable

is that enviable is arousing or likely to arouse envy while desirable is wanted.

enviable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Arousing or likely to arouse envy.
    • He had achieved many enviable dramatic successes before this time. —
    This quarter of the city had at that time anything but an enviable reputation. —

    Related terms

    * unenviable

    desirable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Suitable]], worthy to be [[desire#Verb, desired.
  • *
    • 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

    * undesirable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thing that people want; something that is desirable.
    • There are plenty of desirables on display in the window.
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