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- Dictionaryamiable/ˈeɪmɪəbl/
adjective
- 1. having or displaying a friendly and pleasant manner: "the amiable young man greeted me enthusiastically"
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Amiable means having or showing pleasant, good-natured personal qualities; affable. Learn the origin, usage, and related words of amiable from Dictionary.com.
Amiable means friendly, sociable, and congenial, or generally agreeable. It comes from the Latin word for "friend" and has roots in amare, meaning "to love".
A friendly, pleasant person could be described as amiable. Airline flight attendants tend to be amiable. The people monitoring the school's cafeteria? Maybe not. An amiable person is good-natured and easy to get along with.
Amiable means pleasant and friendly. Learn how to use this adjective in different contexts, with synonyms and antonyms, and see examples from the Cambridge English Corpus and the Hansard archive.
Amiable means pleasant and friendly. Learn how to use this adjective in different contexts, with synonyms and examples from the Cambridge Dictionary.
Definition of amiable adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. Friendly and agreeable in disposition; good-natured and likable. 2. Cordial; sociable; congenial: an amiable gathering. [Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin amīcābilis; see amicable.] a′mi·a·bil′i·ty, a′mi·a·ble·ness n. a′mi·a·bly adv. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
