agreeable
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[edit] Etymology
French agréable.
[edit] Pronunciation
- (WEAE) IPA: /ʌˈgɹi.ʌ.bəl/
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[edit] Adjective
agreeable (comparative more agreeable, superlative most agreeable)
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- Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful; as, agreeable manners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste.
- A train of agreeable reveries. --Oliver Goldsmith.
- (colloquial) Willing; ready to agree or consent.
- These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a great sum of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town. -- Hugh Latimer.
- Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted;—followed by to, rarely by with.
- That which is agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of another. --Roger L'Estrange.
- 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.
[edit] Translations
pleasing
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[edit] External links
- agreeable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- agreeable in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
