electable

Able to be elected to office.

Adjective

  1. Able to be elected to office.
    • Since he entered the race more than a week ago, Joe Biden has been citing his connection with middle-class, Rust Belt voters to cast himself as the most electable Democrat in the field — a theory that seems to have...
    • So where are you supposed to find a comfortably electable, qualified candidate who won’t turn 80 while in office? - 2020 May 1, David Leonhardt, “A Democrat Who Can Beat Trump”, in The New York Times:

Origin

Etymology tree English elect 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 electable From elect + -able.

Forms

more electable most electable

Related

electability

Derived

re-electable unelectable

Noun

  1. A person who is able or fit to be elected to office.

Forms

electables