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- Dictionarypreferable/ˈprɛf(ə)rəbl/
adjective
- 1. more desirable or suitable: "lower interest rates were preferable to higher ones"
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Jan 30, 2010 · London. English - South-East England. Jan 31, 2010. #6. Neither 'unpreferable' nor 'dispreferable' is in common use, and I would avoid them in an ordinary sentence. ('Dispreferable' has very much the flavour of economics or psychology jargon.) But I'm stumped as to what to say instead.
Aug 18, 2007 · Hi, Are both examples correct? 1. Tea with milk is preferable to coffee 2. Tea with milk is preferable than coffee Is no. 2 correct too? (I've seen some sentences with "preferable than"). Are there any rules when I should say "preferable to" or "preferable than"? Thank you
Dec 9, 2022 · Hi. I didn’t check them up in the WR dictionary. But I did look it up in Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, and it says that “preferable” means “more attractive or more suitable” while “desirable” means “that you would like to have or do; worth having or doing”. I guess in my mind, I was think that when I “would like to ...
Aug 15, 2008 · England. English. Aug 15, 2008. #2. overtone. (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality; "overtones of despair. undertone, subdued emotional quality underlying an utterance; implicit meaning. I would say that undertones is more subtle, maybe unintentional whereas overtones are intentional. That would be my perception of it anyway.
May 28, 2013 · English - U.S. May 28, 2013. #2. A series may not be a single group, but this word means that there is some sequence relationship among the items. A series of problems could have come up at different times, so time provides the sequencing. Or, solving one problem might have led to discovering the next, so that creates the sequencing.
Feb 26, 2019 · Feb 26, 2019. #2. "Evidence" is not countable. There is no such thing as "a few evidence." For countable nouns, if you have a few of them, the noun must be in the plural: a few men, a few houses, a few eggs. "A little evidence," since it discusses an amount and not a count, is correct.
Jan 4, 2018 · It could also be said that the disposition comes from the desire of a human source so is similar to deontic volitive modalities where a subject aspires to influence the world. It ranges from not-wanting through not-opposing to wanting. (Palmer (1986: 12) suggests that 'bouletic' would be etymologically preferable.)" A BRIEF GLOSSARY OF MODALITY
Mar 17, 2012 · It is (still) *the* standard construction to introduce and define symbols in maths. And you are completely right, I can hardly think of any context where "We denote by n an arbitrary integer" should be preferable to "Let n be an arbitrary integer" -- I should have chosen a different sample sentence like "If not explicitly stated otherwise, we ...
Dec 13, 2014 · Dec 13, 2014. #2. There's nothing idiotic about your question, poisongift. "More" before "preferable" is redundant. "Preferable" already contains the idea of "more" or "better", so it's bad style to use "more" in front of "preferable". By itself, "preferable" should be used to mean that one thing is better than any others.
Jun 20, 2010 · English-US. Jun 20, 2010. #3. My view as a language teacher is to remember that there are different levels of language for different situations: with your friends, another for older relatives, another for the office, and so on. The notion of correctness is a function of how language is used and with whom.
