agreeable

adj, noun — 6 senses

agreeable

adj

UK /əˈɡɹiːəbəl/ · US /əˈɡɹiəbəl/

Etymology From Middle English agreable, from Old French agreable. Equivalent to agree + -able.

1

Able to agree; possible to be agreed.

  • an agreeable contract
2

Pleasant to the senses or the mind; pleasing, satisfying, palatable.

  • a man with agreeable manners
  • not completely agreeable remarks
3 more examples
  • She’s quite an agreeable person.
  • This fruit has an agreeable taste.
  • the train of agreeable reveries.1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC:
3

Dated Willing; ready to agree or consent.

  • If the committee is agreeable, we'll make an arrangement agreeable to both sides.
  • 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.1529, Hugh Latimer, sermon in Cambridge:
4

Agreeing or suitable; 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.1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
5

Adverbial Pursuant, conformant, accordant.

  • Agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.
  • And I do not know of any Indian or Indians that have taken upon them to give up any lands to the White people other than agreeable to the treaty , nor would I accept of any but from the nation1883, Charles Colcock Jones, The History of Georgia: Revolutionary epoch:
Synonyms
pleasant, acquiescent, accordant, agreeable, agreeing, concordant, conformable, congruent, congruous, consonant, corresponding, harmonious, like-minded, of like mind
Antonyms
disagreeable, incongruous, strange, unharmonious
Derived terms
agreeableness, agreeably, nonagreeable, unagreeable
Related terms
great minds think alike, agree, agreement, normal, correspondent, friendly

agreeable

noun

Etymology From Middle English agreable, from Old French agreable. Equivalent to agree + -able.

1

Something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.

  • 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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