companionable

Etymology

companion + -able

adj

1. Having the characteristics of a worthy companion; friendly and sociable.
   I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. 1854, Henry David Thoreau, chapter V, in Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, published 1910, page 178
   All the disagreeable circumstances of my prison had become, as it were, to me friendly and companionable; not one of them gave me annoyance. 1887, Benvenuto Cellini, chapter CXXI, in John Addington Symonds, transl., Autobiography, New York: P.F. Collier & Son, published 1910, page 240
   Then he strolled back again, kicking his heels carelessly, and a companionable silence fell between the three men. 1908, G. K. Chesterton, chapter IX, in The Man Who Was Thursday, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, published 1910, page 154
   They are a companionable food; they make a pleasant, crunching noise when they are bitten, and so, when one is eating carrots, one can listen to the sound of one's eating and make a story from it. 1914, James Stephens, The Demi-Gods, New York: Macmillan, published 1921, Book II, pp. 126-7
   Bottles of rye, purgative waters and eaux for every conceivable toilette made a companionable click in his worn carpet bag. 1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, New York: Vintage, published 2004, page 100
   The up and down lines ran next to each other in vault-like tunnels, whereas the Tube trains would occupy their own tunnels. That's why the cut-and-cover lines are more human than the Tubes. They are more companionable. You can see people going the other way - your perspective is broadened. 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, pages 35–36