agreeable
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /əˈɡɹiːəbl/
agreeable
- Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful.
- agreeable manners
- agreeable remarks
- an agreeable person
- fruit agreeable to the taste
: - A train of agreeable reveries.
- (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.
- Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; followed by to, or rarely by with.
: - That which is agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of another.
- In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; used adverbially
- Agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.
- (pleasing, pleasant) seeSynonyms en
- (willing) seeSynonyms en
- (conforming) seeSynonyms en
- French: agréable
- German: angenehm
- Italian: gradevole
- Portuguese: agradável
- Russian: ми́лый
- Spanish: lisonjero, agradable
- German: verträglich, liebenswürdig, gefällig
- Russian: согла́сный
- Spanish: dispuesto
- Russian: прие́млемый
- Spanish: conforme
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)
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