Dictionary

girlfriendable en · ADJ

Etymology

From girlfriend + -able.

Meanings

1. (informal, rare) Worthy of being someone's girlfriend.
   • Quite quickly, he asked me to be his girlfriend and because that had never happened to me, it felt like a big deal because I’d been starting to think that perhaps I wasn’t girlfriendable. 2022 August 4, Cinzia Baylis-Zullo, “The First Cut is the Deepest”, in Sophia Tuxford, Cinzia Baylis-Zullo, The Girls Bathroom: The Must-Have Book for Messy, Wonderful Women, London: Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN:
   • When a 17-year-old is given a creepy old music box that promises to grant wishes, she becomes rich, popular and girlfriendable overnight—but everyone around her starts going to hell fast. 2017 July 10, Chris Lackner, “Pop forecast: More monkeying around on the big screen”, in Lucinda Chodan, editor, Montreal Gazette, Montreal, Que.: Postmedia, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A12, column 1:
   • “We encouraged readers not to go on looks alone,” [James] Bassil said. “I don’t believe it’s an entirely accurate reflection of what a reader strives for in their long-term relationships, but at the same time, it’s not a sheerly surface appreciation.” Right. Which is why the rest of the Top 10 in the list of most-girlfriendable includes such lovable but not terribly good-looking women as Brazilian supermodel Adriana Lima, movie stars Charlize Theron and Natalie Portman, and “Desperate Housewives” star Eva Longoria. 2006 January 31, “Girlfriend of the year”, in The Star-Ledger, final edition, Newark, N.J., →OCLC, page 21, columns 1–2:

Forms

Coordinates

boyfriendable · boyfriend material

Relateds

friendable

Synonyms

girlfriend material