agreeable
agree·able (-ə bəl)
adjective
- pleasing or pleasant an agreeable odor
- willing or ready to consent
- conformable or in accord
- that can be approved; acceptable a contract agreeable to both parties
Etymology: ME & OFr agreable < agreer, agree
agreeable
modif.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- find: To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate!
- make: A quiet time to oneself, either at home or away from home, each day can make a disagreeable person agreeable.
Infinitive complement
- look: Neither of the portraits of Sir Walter Scott, for instance, were very agreeable to look upon.
- have: It was agreeable to have a night off the route with familiar friends.
Modifies a noun
- companion: Upon the whole, however, he was, in his way, a man of some humor, and an agreeable companion.
- surprise: If you think all the beauty is in the Lake District, you are in for an agreeable surprise.
- manner: Later in life, Palmer still preserved his agreeable manners.
- climate: These facts together with an agreeable year round climate have ensured that there are a good selection of quality golf courses present.
- solution: She can help couples arrive at an agreeable solution to their differences together.
- walk: I never had such an agreeable walk in my life.
Modifying Another Word
- mutually: The customer has the right to carry out periodic audits at times mutually agreeable to both parties.
- perfectly: But If it's folk that turns you on, you'll find this a perfectly agreeable listen.
- very: He is very agreeable to the information being put on the web site.
- extremely: The prospect of the Netherfield ball was extremely agreeable to every female of the family.
- rather: The pedestrian walkways, which had seemed rather agreeable to me at first, began to become irritating.
- quite: Managers are quite agreeable most of the time What happens to bad managers?
Used with adjective complement
- seem: Certainly seems much more agreeable than using an estate agent.
- find: Wagner A wise man finds agreeable, A dog that's learned its lesson well.
- mean: His company was by no means agreeable to me, but my opinion was not asked.
- prove: Accommodation proved agreeable, give or take the odd furry visitor.
'My idea of an agreeable person,'said Hugo Bohun,'is a person who agrees with me.'
An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Feware qualified to shine in company; but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.
I know heisa devil, but hehassomethingoftheangel yet undefaced in him, which makes him so charming and agreeable that I must love him, be he never so wicked.
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