aoibhiúil

Irish

Etymology

From aoibh (“smile; pleasant expression”) +‎ -úil (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

aoibhiúil (genitive singular masculine aoibhiúil, genitive singular feminine aoibhiúla, plural aoibhiúla, comparative aoibhiúla)

1. pleasant, smiling

Declension

Declension of aoibhiúil

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	aoibhiúil	aoibhiúil	aoibhiúla
Vocative	aoibhiúil		aoibhiúla
Genitive		aoibhiúla	aoibhiúla	aoibhiúil
Dative	aoibhiúil	aoibhiúil	aoibhiúla
Comparative	níos aoibhiúla
Superlative	is aoibhiúla

Synonyms

• aobhdha

Antonyms

• anaoibhiúil (“unsmiling, gloomy, glum, despondent”, adjective)

Derived terms

• aoibhiúlacht f (“pleasantness”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aoibhiúil	n-aoibhiúil	haoibhiúil	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aoibhiúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN