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US
/ˈɛkwəbəɫ/
]
[ UK /ˈɛkəbəl/ ]
[ UK /ˈɛkəbəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
not easily irritated
not everyone shared his placid temperament
an equable temper
remained placid despite the repeated delays -
not varying
an equable climate
How To Use equable In A Sentence
- In the year 115 B.C., officers to "equalize distribution", chün shu, which may be termed equable marketing, were appointed. Discourses On Salt and Iron
- It's lucky that his parents are so equable.
- An equable character, without airs, he displays a cool estimation of how seriously to take how others see him.
- As the real motions, both of the earth and the planets, are unequable, it was requisite to have some mode of representing their inequalities; and accordingly the ancient theory of excentrics and epicycles was retained so far as was requisite for this purpose. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
- In the Torres Islands the predominant seasonal winds occur within a weather regime that is fairly equable throughout the year.
- Graham has a fairly equable temperament - I haven't often seen him really angry.
- The method I should use in distributive Justice, [174] I often observe in commutative; [175] and keep a Geometrical proportion in both, whereby becoming equable to others, I become unjust to my self, and supererogate Religio Medici
- It was bright and hot, the glorious, equable equatorial heat, and when we got out of the mangrove swamps through which the road is causewayed, there was fine tropical foliage, and the trees were festooned with a large, blue Thunbergia of great beauty. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
- Her sound was more beautiful, her stage presence more serene, her personality more equable.
- They insisted that the climate we had experienced in the past century or so, mild and equable, was not the only sort of climate the planet knew.