AMICABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amicable mean? 

• AMICABLE (adjective)
  The adjective AMICABLE has 1 sense:

1. characterized by friendship and good will

  Familiarity information: AMICABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMICABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by friendship and good will

Context example:

an amicable agreement

Similar:

friendly; well-disposed; well disposed (inclined to help or support; not antagonistic or hostile)

unthreatening; well-meaning (not unfriendly or threatening)

Also:

friendly (characteristic of or befitting a friend)

lovable; loveable (having characteristics that attract love or affection)

peaceable; peaceful (not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war)

Antonym:

hostile (characterized by enmity or ill will)

Derivation:

amicability; amicableness (having a disposition characterized by warmth and friendliness)

 Context examples 

She answered him with a smile, and they went on together in the most amicable manner.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When tea was over and Mrs. Fairfax had taken her knitting, and I had assumed a low seat near her, and Adele, kneeling on the carpet, had nestled close up to me, and a sense of mutual affection seemed to surround us with a ring of golden peace, I uttered a silent prayer that we might not be parted far or soon; but when, as we thus sat, Mr. Rochester entered, unannounced, and looking at us, seemed to take pleasure in the spectacle of a group so amicable—when he said he supposed the old lady was all right now that she had got her adopted daughter back again, and added that he saw Adele was prete a croquer sa petite maman Anglaise—I half ventured to hope that he would, even after his marriage, keep us together somewhere under the shelter of his protection, and not quite exiled from the sunshine of his presence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A name that I am so very well acquainted with; knew the gentleman so well by sight; seen him a hundred times; came to consult me once, I remember, about a trespass of one of his neighbours; farmer's man breaking into his orchard; wall torn down; apples stolen; caught in the fact; and afterwards, contrary to my judgement, submitted to an amicable compromise.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

An impromptu circus, fox and geese, and an amicable game of croquet finished the afternoon.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)