girlfriendable

English

Etymology

From girlfriend +‎ -able.

Adjective

girlfriendable (comparative more girlfriendable, superlative most girlfriendable)

  1. (informal, rare) Worthy of being someone's girlfriend.
    Synonym: girlfriend material
    Coordinate terms: boyfriendable, boyfriend material
    • 2006 January 31, “Girlfriend of the year”, in The Star-Ledger, final edition, Newark, N.J., →OCLC, page 21, columns 1–2:
      “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.
    • 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:
      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.
      A review of Wish Upon.
    • 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:
      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.
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