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/əgrˈiəbəl/ Listen

adjective

Agreeable adj.

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."

Willing; ready to agree or consent. (Colloq.) "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, 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; in this sense used adverbially for agreeably; as, agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.

Synonyms: Pleasing; pleasant; welcome; charming; acceptable; amiable. See Pleasant.

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"Agreeable" Quotes from Famous Books

... better opportunity for will-training than the hospital affords the nurse. The constant necessity of acting against desire, of doing tasks which in themselves cannot be agreeable, calls for a developed will, while it gives it constant exercise. Moods of discouragement and depression cannot be indulged. The nurse must do her work no matter how tired or blue or "frazzled" she ...

— Applied Psychology for Nurses • Mary F. Porter

... American; this is the persistence with which Sir Lionel keeps up as a member of the little company. He makes himself agreeable all around, and as John has had no proof of the Briton's miserable work in the harbor of Malta, he is wise enough to restrain his feelings and hold his tongue, trusting to some future event to tear off the mask and reveal him in ...

— Miss Caprice • St. George Rathborne

... patient water, which was promptly negatived. Another bade us hold him up; he himself prayed to be let lie; but as it was at least as well to keep him off the streaming decks, O'Reilly and I supported him between us. It was only by main force that we did so, and neither an easy nor an agreeable duty; for he fought in his paroxysms like a frightened child, and moaned miserably when he resigned himself ...

— Essays of Travel • Robert Louis Stevenson

... called because in his nature he resembled a flower, and loved to do only what was beautiful and agreeable, and took no delight in labour of any kind. But while Daffydowndilly was yet a little boy, his mother sent him away from his pleasant home, and put him under the care of a very strict schoolmaster, who went by the name of Mr. Toil. ...

— The Ontario Readers - Third Book • Ontario Ministry of Education

... larch door between him and—— And what? What was he reluctant to sever from? He asked himself that with as much surprise as if he had been a stranger to himself. He felt that to go within at once would be to lose something, to go out of a most agreeable atmosphere. He was not hungry. To sit with old people over an austere table with no flowers on it because of the day, and see the Paymaster snuff above his tepid second day's broth, and hear the Cornal snort because the mince-collops his toothless-ness demanded on other days ...

— Gilian The Dreamer - His Fancy, His Love and Adventure • Neil Munro

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