ENVIABLE Synonyms: 91 Similar and Opposite Words

enviable

adjective

Definition of enviable

as in attractive

causing envy The company is in the enviable position of having no real competitors. She has an enviable reputation for honesty.

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Recent Examples of enviable The company still has an enviable position in the smartphone world. — Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 29 Aug. 2026 But after years of accelerating investment in data centers and AI servers, those once-enviable financial profiles are beginning to show some strain. — Paulina Likos, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026 San Diego offers one of the United States’ most enviable lifestyles. — Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026 The company, valued at nearly $1 trillion, remains in an enviable position. — Alex Heath, Time, 26 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for enviable

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But rising bond yields make safer government debt more attractive relative to stocks, while also reducing the present value investors assign to companies’ future earnings.

— Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
Those figures could make efficiency retrofits attractive as marine fuel costs and emissions requirements rise.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of attractive

Adjective

As high-quality synthetic re-creations become cheap and accessible, cloning has become a more desirable option for studios struggling with runaway production costs.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
Summary Personality traits often blur between desirable and undesirable, with positive qualities becoming negative in extreme.

— Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of desirable

Adjective

The selection process does not judge whether a study is admirable or absurd, good or bad.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Aug. 2026
Its storyline spins the futile, determined chase of Wile to one day capture Roadrunner as something admirable, and applies that underdog mentality to the average person trying to navigate a late capitalist landscape that values profits over people.

— Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of admirable

Adjective

But a pleasant, elegant note does not match the intimacy—the intentionality—of speaking.

— José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 2 Sep. 2026
Only Ann Patchett could write such a pleasant, amiable novel about death, and only a horse could serve as her essential metaphor for peaceful salvation.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2026

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