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US
/əˈɡɹiəbəɫ/
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[ UK /ɐɡɹˈiːəbəl/ ]
[ UK /ɐɡɹˈiːəbəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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conforming to your own liking or feelings or nature
an agreeable manner
Is the plan agreeable to you?
he's an agreeable fellow
My idea of an agreeable person...is a person who agrees with me -
prepared to agree or consent
agreeable to the plan -
in keeping
salaries agreeable with current trends
expressed views concordant with his background
plans conformable with your wishes
How To Use agreeable In A Sentence
- The best wine vinegar may be made from either white or red wine, the latter having an agreeable mellow taste.
- Unlike the phrenologists of the 19th century, DeYoung's team doesn't presume to know whether differences in the size of a brain region give rise to unique personality characteristics, or whether our personality differences cause our brains to develop in unique ways - say, that when we practice random acts of kindness, our "agreeableness" center grows larger, or that a lifetime of social isolation might cause a region associated with The Columbian stories: Columns
- Blomquist also considered the possibility that the driver finds use of the seat belt disagreeable.
- He switched on the lamp on his writing desk to provide his room with the most agreeable cast of light.
- It was more a thing of his head than his heart, revealing itself mainly in short, acrid speeches, meant to be clever, and indubitably disagreeable. Mary Marston
- Everybody shouts it, mule-driver, "coachee," or cattle-driver; and even I, a passenger, fancied I could do it to disagreeable perfection after a time. The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
- What a charming possession of himself, that he could be in such a brangle, as I may call it, and which might have had fatal consequences; yet be so wholly, and so soon, divested of the subject; and so infinitely agreeable upon half a score others, as they offered from one or other as we sat at tea! Sir Charles Grandison
- One day should be spent visiting some of the key vineyards, so I took advantage of the Discovery Pass and idled away two agreeable afternoons visiting Margaux and St Emilion.
- Teenagers don't seem to understand that they don't have to actively misbehave to be disagreeable to older people.
- That the islands are still an agreeable place to live is not in doubt, despite US claims that resettlement is unfeasible.