Agreeable
[ə'griːəb(ə)l] or [ə'ɡriəbl]
Definition
(adj.) conforming to your own liking or feelings or nature; 'Is the plan agreeable to you?'; 'he's an agreeable fellow'; 'My idea of an agreeable person...is a person who agrees with me'- Disraeli; 'an agreeable manner' .
(adj.) prepared to agree or consent; 'agreeable to the plan' .
Typist: Malcolm--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful; as, agreeable manners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste.
(a.) Willing; ready to agree or consent.
(a.) Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; -- followed by to, rarely by with.
(a.) In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; -- in this sense used adverbially for agreeably; as, agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Suitable, fitting, fit, proper, meet, appropriate, befitting, conformable, correspondent, accordant, concordant, consonant.[2]. Pleasing, pleasant, pleasurable, grateful, gratifying, acceptable, welcome, good, goodly, delightful, charming, delectable, delicious, dulcet, sweet, to one's taste, to one's mind, after one's fancy.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Obliging, pleasant, accommodating, grateful, acceptable, welcome, suitable,consistent, consonant, amiable, gratifying, pleasing, good-natured,complaisant
ANT:Disobliging, unpleasant, unaccommodating, disagreeable, obnoxious, ungrateful,unwelcome, unacceptable, offensive
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Examples
- He was something agreeable to sit near, to hover round, to address and look at. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He was, in fact, the most agreeable young man the sisters had ever known, and they were equally delighted with him. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I merely intend to make myself entrancingly agreeable to every one I know, and to keep them in your corner as long as possible. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Mrs. Elton is very good-natured and agreeable, and I dare say her acquaintance are just what they ought to be. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Guitar and mandolin are agreeable instruments for amateurs, but are never used in orchestral music. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- So Meg went down, wearing an injured look, and wasn't at all agreeable at breakfast time. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He must think himself a most agreeable fellow; I could not do such a thing. Jane Austen. Emma.
- That is all very proper and civil, I am sure, said Mrs. Bennet, and I dare say she is a very agreeable woman. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The necessary steps back and forth from the breakfast room to the kitchen to prepare hot, crunchy toast made this portion of breakfast-getting a not agreeable feature. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Mr. Collins, to be sure, was neither sensible nor agreeable; his society was irksome, and his attachment to her must be imaginary. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- During the intervals of pain from this grievous disease, he spent many cheerful hours, conversing in the most agreeable and instructive manner. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He was a fluent, cheerful, agreeable talker. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Upon the whole, such taxes, therefore, are perhaps as agreeable to the three first of the four general maxims concerning taxation, as any other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Will Ladislaw was delightfully agreeable at dinner the next day, and gave no opportunity for Mr. Casaubon to show disapprobation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The heat of the sun on the vessel was excessive, the company strangers to me, and not very agreeable. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Wit, and a certain easy and disengaged behaviour, are qualities immediately agreeable to others, and command their love and esteem. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- They will have a great deal of money, and you will have none: it is your place to be humble, and to try to make yourself agreeable to them. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- His sensitiveness to approbation, his hope of winning favor by an agreeable act, are made use of to induce action in another direction. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We also approve of one, who is possessed of qualities, that are immediately agreeable to himself; though they be of no service to any mortal. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- We do not often look upon fine young men, well-bred and agreeable. Jane Austen. Emma.
- It affords me the greatest pleasure to record now my agreeable disappointment in respect to his character. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- However, she is very agreeable, and Mrs. Bates too, in a different way. Jane Austen. Emma.
- He relinquished them with an agreeable smile, and combated with the door as if it were a wild beast. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Such kind friends, you know, Miss Woodhouse, one must always find agreeable, though every body seemed rather fagged after the morning's party. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Lady Middleton was more agreeable than her mother only in being more silent. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- No, I cannot dispute it, and I will not dispute it--Sir Percival is a very handsome and a very agreeable man. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Strange, when he has the art of making himself so agreeable. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This strongly marked way of doing business made a strongly marked impression on me, and that not of an agreeable kind. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Freed from that he would have been as agreeable a specimen of rustic manhood as one would often see. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Mr. Skimpole was as agreeable at breakfast as he had been overnight. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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