SOUGHT AFTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sought after mean? 

• SOUGHT AFTER (adjective)
  The adjective SOUGHT AFTER has 1 sense:

1. greatly desired

  Familiarity information: SOUGHT AFTER used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUGHT AFTER (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Greatly desired

Synonyms:

coveted; in demand; sought-after; sought after

Similar:

desirable (worth having or seeking or achieving)

 Context examples 

No aunt, no officers, no news could be sought after—the very shoe-roses for Netherfield were got by proxy.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Their acquaintance was exceedingly sought after.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The rumour that the Prince was to be present had already spread through the clubs, and invitations were eagerly sought after.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Meantime, you forget essential points in pursuing trifles: you do not inquire why Mr. Briggs sought after you—what he wanted with you.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was the elusive spirit of poetry itself that he sensed and sought after but could not capture.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

When morning came and a dim light pervaded the lair, he again sought after the source of the remotely familiar sounds.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She was happy whenever she looked at William, and saw how perfectly he was enjoying himself, in every five minutes that she could walk about with him and hear his account of his partners; she was happy in knowing herself admired; and she was happy in having the two dances with Edmund still to look forward to, during the greatest part of the evening, her hand being so eagerly sought after that her indefinite engagement with him was in continual perspective.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

His company so sought after, that every body says he need not eat a single meal by himself if he does not chuse it; that he has more invitations than there are days in the week.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Waiving that point, however, and supposing her to be, as you describe her, only pretty and good-natured, let me tell you, that in the degree she possesses them, they are not trivial recommendations to the world in general, for she is, in fact, a beautiful girl, and must be thought so by ninety-nine people out of an hundred; and till it appears that men are much more philosophic on the subject of beauty than they are generally supposed; till they do fall in love with well-informed minds instead of handsome faces, a girl, with such loveliness as Harriet, has a certainty of being admired and sought after, of having the power of chusing from among many, consequently a claim to be nice.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Fanny went to her every two or three days: it seemed a kind of fascination: she could not be easy without going, and yet it was without loving her, without ever thinking like her, without any sense of obligation for being sought after now when nobody else was to be had; and deriving no higher pleasure from her conversation than occasional amusement, and that often at the expense of her judgment, when it was raised by pleasantry on people or subjects which she wished to be respected.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)