danceable

Suitable for dancing.

Adjective

  1. Suitable for dancing.
  2. Danceworthy.
    • “Assignment time! Hatchi machi! (gasps) I got conference room cleanup duty. In your face!” “Last time I checked, that was very lame.” (humming) “Why would you dance? That's not a danceable job.” - 2020 August 27, Ann...

Origin

Etymology tree Vulgar Latin *dantiāreder. Anglo-Norman dauncerbor. Middle English dauncen English dance Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English danceable From dance + -able.

Forms

more danceable most danceable

Related

danceability

Derived

undanceable

Noun

  1. A social event with dancing; a ball.
    • During the months that followed the bazaar, Rhett called whenever he was in town, taking Scarlett riding in his carriage, escorting her to danceables and bazaars and waiting outside the hospital to drive her home. -...
    • The Netherwood was billed as "a city hotel in the country." For two decades after its 1878 opening, people arrived from New York by parlor car to spend their vacation on the Netherwood Heights. Croquet, danceables,...
    • In the street the rattle of carriages could still be heard, women's voices calling farewells and invitations to future dinners and danceables. - 2007, Barbara Hambly, Die Upon a Kiss:
  2. A song suitable for dancing to.
    • The Dynatones' approach is a three-way mix: familiar danceables from the likes of Junior Walker, Sam & Dave and the Rascals; scrupulously selected obscurities from such artists as Z.Z. Hill and Rodger Collins, which...
    • A five-piece band playing modern Top 40 danceables, Hot Pursuit is after Tucsonans not content with toe tapping. - 2015, Robert E. Zucker, Entertaining Tucson Across the Decades: Volume 2: 1986-1989:

Forms

danceables