agreeable

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /əˈɡɹiːəbl/

Adjective

agreeable

1. 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.

2. (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.

3. 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.

4. In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; used adverbially

   Agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.

Synonyms

• (pleasing, pleasant) seeSynonyms en
• (willing) seeSynonyms en
• (conforming) seeSynonyms en

Translations

• French: agréable
• German: angenehm
• Italian: gradevole
• Portuguese: agradável
• Russian: ми́лый
• Spanish: lisonjero, agradable

Translations

• German: verträglich, liebenswürdig, gefällig
• Russian: согла́сный
• Spanish: dispuesto

Translations

• Russian: прие́млемый
• Spanish: conforme

Noun

agreeable (plural agreeables)

1. 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.

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