Desirable means worth wanting or having. A desirable address, highly desirable, desirable qualities.
In job advertisements it is a term of art paired with essential: essential requirements you must have, desirable ones improve your chances. In property it is estate-agent language for expensive. Applied to a person it is about attraction.
1adjectivedesirableWorth wanting or having.
“A garden is highly desirable for a family with young children.”
desirable is a quality.
Old French desirable comes from desirer, from Latin desiderare, to long for.
Old French
desirable
English, today
desirable
From Old French desirable. Morphologically desire + able.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA