agreeable

From Middle English agreable, from Old French agreable; displaced native Old English cweme (“pleasing, agreeable”). Equivalent to agree +‎ -able.

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈɡɹiːəbl/

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agreeable (comparative more agreeable, superlative most agreeable)

1. Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful.

   agreeable manners

   agreeable remarks

   an agreeable person

   fruit agreeable to the taste

   • (Can we date this quote?) Oliver Goldsmith:

     A train of agreeable reveries.

2. (colloquial) Willing; ready to agree or consent.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Hugh Latimer:

     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.

3. Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; followed by to, or rarely by with.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Roger L'Estrange:

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

4. In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; used adverbially

   Agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.

• (pleasing, pleasant): See Thesaurus:pleasant
• (willing): See Thesaurus:acquiescent
• (conforming): See Thesaurus:agreeable

agreeable (plural agreeables)

1. Something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.
   • 1855, Blackwood's magazine (volume 77, page 331)

     The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.

• agreeable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• agreeable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.