agreeable

Etymology

From Middle English agreable, from Old French agreable. Equivalent to agree + -able.

adj

  1. Able to agree; possible to be agreed.
  2. Pleasant to the senses or the mind.
    a man with agreeable manners
    not completely agreeable remarks
    she's quite an agreeable person
    This fruit has an agreeable taste
  3. (dated) Willing; ready to agree or consent.
    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. 1529, Hugh Latimer, sermon in Cambridge
  4. Agreeing or suitable; followed by to, or rarely by with.
  5. (used adverbially) Pursuant, conformant, accordant.
    Agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.
    And I do not know of any Indian or Indians that have taken upon them to give up any lands to the White people other than agreeable to the treaty , nor would I accept of any but from the nation 1883, Charles Colcock Jones, The History of Georgia: Revolutionary epoch

noun

  1. Something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.
    The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you. 1855, Blackwood's magazine, volume 77, page 331

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