presentable

From Middle French presentable, from Old French, as if present +‎ -able.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈzɛntəbəl/

presentable (comparative more presentable, superlative most presentable)

1. In good enough shape to be shown or offered to other people; tidy; attractive.

   Before we go out, let me just go to the washroom and make myself presentable.

   • 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M. Hill Co., OCLC 297099816:

     Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints. 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.

2. (ecclesiastical) Capable of being presented to a church living.

From presentar +‎ -able.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /pɾə.zənˈta.blə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /pɾe.zenˈta.ble/

presentable (masculine and feminine plural presentables)

1. presentable

From presentar +‎ -able.

• IPA^(key): /pɾesenˈtable/ [pɾe.sẽn̪ˈt̪a.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: pre‧sen‧ta‧ble

presentable (plural presentables)

1. presentable

   Antonym: impresentable

• “presentable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014