AGREEABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does agreeable mean? 

• AGREEABLE (adjective)
  The adjective AGREEABLE has 3 senses:

1. conforming to your own liking or feelings or nature

2. in keeping

3. prepared to agree or consent

  Familiarity information: AGREEABLE used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGREEABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conforming to your own liking or feelings or nature

Context example:

an agreeable manner

Antonym:

disagreeable (not to your liking)

Derivation:

agreeability (a temperamental disposition to be agreeable)

agreeableness (pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In keeping

Synonyms:

accordant; agreeable; concordant; conformable; consonant

Context example:

expressed views concordant with his background

Similar:

consistent ((sometimes followed by 'with') in agreement or consistent or reliable)

Derivation:

agree (be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics)

agree (go together)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Prepared to agree or consent

Context example:

agreeable to the plan

Similar:

accordant (being in agreement or harmony; often followed by 'with')

Derivation:

agree (consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something)

agree (be in accord; be in agreement)

agree (achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose)

agreeability; agreeableness (a temperamental disposition to be agreeable)

 Context examples 

The —th regiment are stationed there since the riots; and the officers are the most agreeable men in the world: they put all our young knife-grinders and scissor merchants to shame.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The girls had never been called angel children before, and thought it very agreeable, especially Jo, who had been considered a 'Sancho' ever since she was born.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

That he was a sensible man, an agreeable man, that he talked well, professed good opinions, seemed to judge properly and as a man of principle, this was all clear enough.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

“A stranger or so makes an agreeable change,” suggested Peggotty.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Indeed he is, Mrs. Allen,” said Mrs. Thorpe, smiling complacently; “I must say it, though I am his mother, that there is not a more agreeable young man in the world.”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He was quite young, wonderfully handsome, extremely agreeable, and, to crown the whole, he meant to be at the next assembly with a large party.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles cola.

(Cola Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)

A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles coffee.

(Coffee Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)

A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles cotton candy.

(Cotton Candy Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)