Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. To one's liking; pleasing: agreeable weather.
- adj. Suitable; conformable: a practice agreeable to the law.
- adj. Ready to consent or submit: I am agreeable to your plan.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Suitable; conformable; correspondent: as, conduct agreeable to the moral law.
- [In this sense agreeable is sometimes incorrectly used for agreeably: as, agreeable to the order of the day, the house took up the report of the committee.]
- Pleasing, either to the mind or to the senses; to one's liking: as, agreeable manners; fruit agreeable to the taste.
- Willing or ready to agree or consent: now used only or chiefly as a colloquialism.
- Agreeing one with another; concordant.
- Synonyms Fitting, befitting, appropriate, consonant (with). Pleasing, etc. See pleasant.
Wiktionary
- adj. Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful; as, agreeable manners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste.
- adj. Willing; ready to agree or consent.
- adj. Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted;—followed by to, rarely by with.
- adj. 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.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful.
- adj. Willing; ready to agree or consent.
- adj. Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; -- followed by
to , rarely bywith . - adj. In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; -- in this sense used adverbially for
agreeably .
WordNet 3.0
- adj. in keeping
- adj. conforming to your own liking or feelings or nature
- adj. prepared to agree or consent
Examples
“It was a short note from her brother apologizing for not being at the docks to meet her, and letting her know that he trusted Mrs. Black and Mrs. Dark—I call them the Dark Sisters, Tessie, for obvious reasons, and they seem to find the name agreeable!”
“The Vice Dean reminded us of a significance of a comments of Enobarbus as a shrewd as good as mostly sarcastic spectator of this adore affair: an researcher both detered by his master's debility in agreeable to Cleopatra's charming energy as good as fascinated himself by a Egyptian queen's witchery.”
“In an earlier scene, he stumbles over to Nancy to deliver a drunken boast that Adelita is far superior to Silas, whom he labels agreeable but “a simple boy.””
“The only instance where I am not agreeable is when I feel, for some reason, that I have to be.”
“Under this circumstance the mind is kept constantly in agreeable suspense.”
“In the management of my business I led a very active and busy life -- a life, in short, agreeable to my own taste.”
“You can hardly make the word agreeable to English ears without this comfortable reference to the reassuring science of archæology.”
“I'll make the terms agreeable," replied the sergeant.”
“Half the candidates were described as agreeable, while the other half were described as disagreeable.”
“When the participants evaluated women for the management track, their judgments were not affected by whether the candidate was described as agreeable or disagreeable.”
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