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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
agreeable
adjective
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▪ Or would his freedom be more agreeable?
▪ The section of the base around the old fort was more agreeable than the rest.
▪ The new non-socialist party looks more agreeable than it has done for 20 years.
▪ It often depends on the actual size of the specimens selected as sub-adults are often more agreeable than fully grown ones.
▪ Staff accepted lower wages because Virgin seemed to be a more agreeable place to work than anywhere else in the record industry.
▪ He was in a rather more agreeable mood.
most
▪ And Gemma was surely the most agreeable girl a man could wish for.
▪ He is easy and unreserved among acquaintance, and has a most agreeable style of conversation.
▪ I consented, and spent a most agreeable day.
▪ He switched on the lamp on his writing desk to provide his room with the most agreeable cast of light.
▪ I found him a most agreeable man, a sharp observer, and the possessor of intellectual attainments of no mean order.
▪ I found him a most agreeable man and we seemed to get along well from the start.
▪ Feel free to make your presentation in whatever way is most agreeable to you, using visuals if you so prefer.
very
▪ It is all very agreeable but please, my dear boy, don't allow yourself to take it seriously.
▪ Washing clothes was then a very agreeable occupation.
▪ It's all very agreeable, and all terribly undramatic.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an agreeable comedy
▪ an agreeable solution
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A man quite simply can not now father a baby unless his wife is fully and deliberately agreeable.
▪ He is easy and unreserved among acquaintance, and has a most agreeable style of conversation.
▪ I found him a most agreeable man, a sharp observer, and the possessor of intellectual attainments of no mean order.
▪ If those conditions were fulfilled, the father was agreeable to pay.
▪ My grandmother was agreeable to marrying Gaetano.
▪ That contact was not always peaceful and agreeable.
▪ The Captain's Table provided an agreeable meal, with attentive service.
▪ You will be telephoned, if you are agreeable, with details of properties just received on to the market.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Agreeable

Agreeable \A*gree"a*ble\, a. [F. agr['e]able.]

  1. Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful; as, agreeable manners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste.

    A train of agreeable reveries.
    --Goldsmith.

  2. Willing; ready to agree or consent. [Colloq.]

    These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a great sum of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town.
    --Latimer.

  3. Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; -- followed by to, rarely by with.

    That which is agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of another.
    --L'Estrange.

  4. 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.

    Syn: Pleasing; pleasant; welcome; charming; acceptable; amiable. See Pleasant.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
agreeable

late 14c., "to one's liking," from Old French agreable (12c., Modern French agréable) "pleasing, in agreement, consenting, thankful," from agreer "to please" (see agree). Related: Agreeably. To do the agreeable (1825) was to "act in a courteous manner."

Wiktionary
agreeable

a. 1 Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful. 2 (context colloquial English) Willing; ready to agree or consent. 3 Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; {{non-gloss definition|followed by (term to English), or rarely by (term with English)}}. 4 In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; (non-gloss definition: used adverbially) n. Something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.

WordNet
agreeable
  1. adj. suitable to your needs or similar to your nature; "a congenial atmosphere to work in"; "two congenial spirits united...by mutual confidence and reciprocal virtues"- T.L.Peacock [syn: congenial] [ant: uncongenial]

  2. to your own liking or feelings or nature; "Is the plan agreeable to you?"; "he's an agreeable fellow"; "My idea of an agreeable person...is a person who agrees with me"- Disraeli; "an agreeable manner" [ant: disagreeable]

  3. in keeping; "salaries agreeable with current trends"; "plans conformable with your wishes"; "expressed views concordant with his background" [syn: accordant, conformable, consonant, concordant]

  4. prepared to agree or consent; "agreeable to the plan"

Usage examples of "agreeable".

After we had supped with the actress, Patu fancied a night devoted to a more agreeable occupation, and as I did not want to leave him I asked for a sofa on which I could sleep quietly during the night.

Johnson, inferior to none in philosophy, philology, poetry, and classical learning, stands foremost as an essayist, justly admired for the dignity, strength, and variety of his style, as well as for the agreeable manner in which he investigates the human heart, tracing every interesting emotion, and opening all the sources of morality.

Persons of a lymphatic or bilious temperament often find that coffee disagrees with them, aggravating their troubles and causing biliousness, constipation, and headache, while tea proves agreeable and beneficial.

It was more agreeable to watch the clouds while the horses rested at the end of the furrow, to address, as did Burns, lines to a field-mouse, or to listen to the song of the meadow-lark, than to learn the habits of the three dimensions then known, of points in motion, of lines in intersection, of surfaces in revolution, or to represent the unknown by algebraic instead of poetic symbols.

It Is Short but Happy--Don Antonio Casanova--Don Lelio Caraffa--I Go to Rome in Very Agreeable Company, and Enter the Service of Cardinal Acquaviva--Barbara--Testaccio--Frascati I had no difficulty in answering the various questions which Doctor Gennaro addressed to me, but I was surprised, and even displeased, at the constant peals of laughter with which he received my answers.

It was more agreeable to his temper, as well as to his policy, to reign under the venerable names of ancient magistracy, and artfully to collect, in his own person, all the scattered rays of civil jurisdiction.

I rather astonished him by telling him that I was glad to lose, for I thought him a much more agreeable companion when he was winning.

The elm has a rather agreeable, nondescript, bitterish taste, but the linden is gummy and of a mediocre quality, like the tree itself, which I dislike.

The leaves, when bruised, make with sugar a capital conserve which is refreshing to a fevered stomach, or, if boiled in milk, they form an agreeable sub-acid whey.

We have from time to time for these several years bypast, emitted and published several declarations and publick testimonies against the breaches of the same, as is evident not only from our declarations of late, but also from all the wrestlings and contendings of the faithful in former times, all which we here adhere to, approve of, and homologate, as they are founded upon the Word of God and are agreeable thereto.

Calsabigi came to see me the next day, bringing the agreeable news that the affair was settled, and that all that was wanting was the publication of the decree.

When I rose in the morning she came to my room with Veronique, and I was glad to see that while the younger sister was radiant with happiness the elder looked pleasant and as if she desired to make herself agreeable.

He hoped that there was no offence,--thought it might have been mutooally agreeable, conclooded he would give up the idee of a colation, and backed himself out as if unwilling to expose the less guarded aspect of his person to the risk of accelerating impulses.

I can not say, Vixi, and I could not procure a more agreeable pastime than to relate my own adventures, and to cause pleasant laughter amongst the good company listening to me, from which I have received so many tokens of friendship, and in the midst of which I have ever lived.

I enquired whether he had a good library, whether there were any literary men, or any good society in which one could spend a few agreeable hours.