affable
af·fable (af′ə bəl)
adjective
- pleasant and easy to approach or talk to; friendly
- gentle and kindly an affable smile
Etymology: ME affabyl < L affabilis < ad-, to + fari, to speak: see fame
affable
modif.
Modifies a noun
- chap: An affable chap, he showed us his on site recording studio and played us a few of his new songs.
- guy: And we'll miss Cooper, too, who was an affable guy at the opening.
- manner: He has an affable manner that instantly puts an interviewer at ease, almost like talking with an old friend.
- fellow: Colo who gave the runner-up received affable fellow with.
- character: He was the ideal co-driver - a very pleasant and affable character, who listened to what you said and never lost his cool.
- man: He was an affable man with a dry sense of humor who was in no sense old-fashioned in his views.
Modifying Another Word
- very: I always found him a very affable, approachable fella.
- so: They are so open, and so affable, really.
- quite: There was certainly nothing I felt was in the least inflammatory - all was in a quite affable tone!
- genuinely: Page always looks on the bright side of life and audiences quickly relate to his genuinely affable nature with some serious cheekiness thrown in.
- normally: A further low point was seeing the reliable and normally affable Herbie Williams sent off after exchanging punches with a Lincoln player.
- always: He was always affable, with a good Cockney humor; everyone liked him.
We do not like the confiding, the intimate, the ingratiating, the hail-fellow-well-met, but prefer the unapproachable, the hard-bitten, the recalcitrant, the sinister, the malignant, the saturnine, the cross-grained and the cankered, and the howling wilderness to the amenities of civilization, the irascible to the affable, the prickly to the smooth.We have no damned fellow- feeling at all.
Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it.Wants steadyemployment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
Browse dictionary entries near affable
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- affaire de coeur
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- affectation
- affected
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