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UK
/sˈəʊʃiəbəl/
]
[ US /ˈsoʊʃəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈsoʊʃəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
inclined to or conducive to companionship with others
enjoyed a sociable chat
a sociable occasion
Americans are sociable and gregarious
a sociable conversation -
friendly and pleasant
a sociable gathering
NOUN
- a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity
How To Use sociable In A Sentence
- Americans are sociable and gregarious
- The criticism of our time ... is indissociable from an investigation and experience of its transcendental field (s), of the (impersonal) tendencies and haecceities which traverse it, as well as the potentialities, utopian ones perhaps, with which our present can be composed. The Skeptic's Field Guide
- He did go to parties but he was not a very sociable person. Times, Sunday Times
- He went on: ‘Although drink driving has now become unsociable, it's about time that we accept that people driving in a sleepified state should also be social outcasts.’
- The observers of this law may be called sociable, (the Latins call them commodi); the contrary, stubborn, insociable, forward, intractable. Leviathan
- He was always a gregarious and sociable person and loved to set up opportunities for people from all walks of life to come together.
- He was a sociable man and a popular figure in Newcastle, fond of a gossip on the Quayside or at the Exchange on Sandhill.
- She slightly disapproved of the way people go to funerals to be sociable. Times, Sunday Times
- Whom those resemble that are morose, unsociable, and unconversable, and affect a melancholy retirement; they are like these solitary creatures that take delight in desolations. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
- Poor stiff-necked, lonely, "hankering" Sam! to be so harshly reproved for his harmlessly sociable intents. Sabbath in Puritan New England