fanciable

English

Etymology

From fancy +‎ -able.

Adjective

fanciable (comparative more fanciable, superlative most fanciable)

1. (UK, informal) Worthy or likely to be fancied; sexually attractive.

   Synonym: crushworthy

   • 1929, Eden Phillpotts, “Mother’s Misfortune”, in The Torch and Other Tales‎^[1], New York: Macmillan, page 105:

     […] I wondered where the poor soul had seen a less fanciable maiden than herself in our village, or any other.

   • 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, “Yazz”, in Girl, Woman, Other, London: Hamish Hamilton:

     she’s only been on one date at uni, which involved sitting at a bar with a male specimen she’d thought was an interesting person, who was obviously swiping his phone to see if someone more fanciable was in the vicinity before making his pathetic excuses about having to do revision

2. (dated) Able to be fancied (imagined or supposed).

   Synonym: imaginable

   • 1936, Code of Georgia Annotated‎^[2], Harrison Company, page 155:

     doubt reasonably and fairly entertained as opposed to vague or fanciable doubt

   • 1948, Standard Federal Tax Reporter‎^[3], Commerce Clearing House:

     […] the factual basis for such a contention is more fanciable than real.