marryable

marryable

English

Etymology

From marry +‎ -able.

Adjective

marryable (comparative more marryable, superlative most marryable)

  1. Alternative spelling of marriable.
    • 1918, James B. Hendryx, “Chapter XVI”, in The Texan: A Story of the Cattle Country‎[1], A. L. Burt Company, →ISBN, page 309:
      The girl smiled up into his face: "And in all sincerity I will say that in all your life you have never seemed so—so marryable as you do right now."
    • 1998, Russell Smith, “Section 16”, in Noise‎[2], Porcupine's Quill, →ISBN, page 193:
      He had done his best to look like one of Kurt's friends, but one of the nice ones, one of the marryable ones, and De Courcy's best was a sophisticated one.
    • 2004, James Wood, The Book Against God‎[3], Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
      "And your fair niece, whom I once met... Ah, is she still sans husband? She should hurry. [...] I always thought her eminently marryable, however."
    • 2007, Lori Smith, “Incense and Blooms”, in A Walk with Jane Austen‎[4], WaterBrook Press, →ISBN, page 78:
      The great and embarrassing disappointment of my life thus far has been the not getting married thing. [...] I still want it so much. And if that sounds crazy to some, since I'm currently thirty-three and still very marryable, it may help to know the expectations in the conservative Christian world in which I was raised.
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