agreeable
English
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “agreeable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Etymology
From Middle English agreable, from Old French agreable; displaced native Old English cweme (“pleasing, agreeable”). Equivalent to agree + -able.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
agreeable (comparative more agreeable, superlative most agreeable)
- Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful.
- agreeable manners
- agreeable remarks
- an agreeable person
- fruit agreeable to the taste
- (Can we date this quote by Oliver Goldsmith and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?):
- A train of agreeable reveries.
- (colloquial) Willing; ready to agree or consent.
- (Can we date this quote by Hugh Latimer and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?):
- 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.
- (Can we date this quote by Hugh Latimer and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?):
- Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; followed by to, or rarely by with.
- (Can we date this quote by Roger L'Estrange and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?):
- That which is agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of another.
- (Can we date this quote by Roger L'Estrange and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?):
- In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; used adverbially
- Agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.
Synonyms
- (pleasing, pleasant): See Thesaurus:pleasant
- (willing): See Thesaurus:acquiescent
- (conforming): See Thesaurus:agreeable
Translations
pleasing
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willing; ready to agree or consent
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conforming
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Noun
agreeable (plural agreeables)
- Something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.
- 1855, Blackwood's magazine (volume 77, page 331)
- The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.
- 1855, Blackwood's magazine (volume 77, page 331)
Further reading
- “agreeable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “agreeable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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