EQUABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does equable mean? 

• EQUABLE (adjective)
  The adjective EQUABLE has 2 senses:

1. not varying

2. not easily irritated

  Familiarity information: EQUABLE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EQUABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not varying

Context example:

an equable climate

Similar:

temperate ((of weather or climate) free from extremes; mild; or characteristic of such weather or climate)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not easily irritated

Synonyms:

equable; even-tempered; good-tempered; placid

Context example:

remained placid despite the repeated delays

Similar:

good-natured (having an easygoing and cheerful disposition)

 Context examples 

He was equable, he was to be relied upon, and withal there was a certain bafflement about him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She preserved an equable cheerfulness in the midst of her sympathy, which was not the least astonishing part of the change that had come over her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My rooms were engaged for twelve months certain: and though I still found them dreary of an evening, and the evenings long, I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee; which I seem, on looking back, to have taken by the gallon at about this period of my existence.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When I undrew the curtains and looked out of bed, I saw him, in an equable temperature of respectability, unaffected by the east wind of January, and not even breathing frostily, standing my boots right and left in the first dancing position, and blowing specks of dust off my coat as he laid it down like a baby.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)