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Definition of Agreeable
1. Adjective. Conforming to your own liking or feelings or nature. "An agreeable manner"
2. Adjective. In keeping. "Expressed views concordant with his background"
Similar to: Consistent
Derivative terms: Agree, Agree
3. Adjective. Prepared to agree or consent. "Agreeable to the plan"
Definition of Agreeable
1. a. Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful; as, agreeable manners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste.
Definition of Agreeable
1. Adjective. Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful. ¹
2. Adjective. (colloquial) Willing; ready to agree or consent. ¹
3. Adjective. Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; (non-gloss definition followed by (term to), or rarely by (term with)). ¹
4. Adjective. In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; (non-gloss definition used adverbially) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Agreeable
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Medical Definition of Agreeable
1. 1. 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." (Goldsmith) 2. 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." (Latimer) 3. 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." (L'Estrange) 4. 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. Synonym: Pleasing, pleasant, welcome, charming, acceptable, amiable. See Pleasant. Origin: F. Agreable. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agreeable
Literary usage of Agreeable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853)
"... professions, and trades, will exert themselves, it can not but produce a new
field of diversion, and instruction more agreeable than has yet appeared. ..."
2. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell (1826)
"This rupture with Sheridan deprived Johnson of one of his most agreeable resources
for amusement in his lonely evenings; for Sheridan's well-informed, ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Brunellesco entered into competition gave to the exterior an agreeable rounded
finish, with Ghiberti and other masters in 1401, when and in the space ..."
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