PRESENTABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does presentable mean? 

• PRESENTABLE (adjective)
  The adjective PRESENTABLE has 1 sense:

1. fit to be seen

  Familiarity information: PRESENTABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRESENTABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fit to be seen

Context example:

presentable clothes

Similar:

respectable (characterized by socially or conventionally acceptable morals)

 Context examples 

When they were all quite presentable they followed the soldier girl into a big room where the Witch Glinda sat upon a throne of rubies.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I'm perfectly miserable, but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

My very shoes and stockings were purified and rendered presentable.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A pair of knee duck trousers and an old sweater made him a presentable wheel costume, so that he could go with Ruth on afternoon rides.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Besides this preliminary outlay, he must be prepared to keep himself for some years, and to hire a presentable carriage and horse.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Immature myeloid cells sample the surrounding environment for pathogens; when they contact a presentable antigen they become activated into mature dendritic cells and migrate to a lymph node where they act as antigen-presenting cells.

(Myeloid Cell Activation Process, NCI Thesaurus)

I came out again, hotter and faster than ever, and dashed up to Highgate, at such a rate that I was there an hour too early; and, though I had not been, should have been obliged to stroll about to cool myself, before I was at all presentable.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A form of schizophrenia characterized by delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy); symptoms may include anger and anxiety and aloofness and doubts about gender identity; unlike other types of schizophrenia the patients are usually presentable and (if delusions are not acted on) may function in an apparently normal manner.

(Paraphrenia, NCI Thesaurus)

Its value was in the liberty it would get him, the presentable garments it would buy him, all of which would bring him nearer, swiftly nearer, to the slender, pale girl who had turned his life back upon itself and given him inspiration.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He had no second-best suit that was presentable, and though he could go to the butcher and the baker, and even on occasion to his sister's, it was beyond all daring to dream of entering the Morse home so disreputably apparelled.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)