Companionable
[kəm'pænjənəb(ə)l] or [kəm'pænɪənəbl]
Definition
(a.) Fitted to be a companion; fit for good fellowship; agreeable; sociable.
Editor: Ronda
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Pleasant, affable, sociable, convertible, friendly, easy, agreeable,gregarious
ANT:Disagreeable, churlish, unsociable, distant, reserved, ungenial, cold,inaccessible, unneighborly, solitary
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Examples
- He was confiding, good-natured, unsophisticated, companionable; but he was not a man to set the river on fire. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- At this place, then, we part--for the present, at least--after long journeying together, with a companionable feeling, I hope, on both sides. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Finding him so very friendly and companionable, it was then that I asked for the pen and ink and paper, to write to Peggotty. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Tom looked in vain among the gang, as they poured along, for companionable faces. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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