noun
definition
Something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.
adjective
definition
Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful.
example
agreeable manners
definition
Willing; ready to agree or consent.
definition
Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; followed by to, or rarely by with.
definition
In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; used adverbially
example
Agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.
Examples of agreeable in a Sentence
You know, you were much more agreeable as a wolf.
Yes, he is an agreeable young man....
The impression the princess made on Rostov was a very agreeable one.
Yet in his misery he was still an agreeable companion.
The plans of Maurice soon took a form less agreeable to the emperor.
The odour of cubebs is agreeable and aromatic; the taste, pungent, acrid, slightly bitter and persistent.
A few minutes later Mademoiselle Bourienne came into Princess Mary's room smiling and making cheerful remarks in her agreeable voice.
If you were cleverer and more agreeable, I should prefer yours.
The various shades of the sand are singularly rich and agreeable, embracing the different iron colors, brown, gray, yellowish, and reddish.
These forms are more agreeable to the fancy and imagination than fresco paintings or other the most expensive furniture.
Citric acid has an agreeable sour taste.
Until May the hot wind is little felt, while during the rains the weather is cool and agreeable.
He recognized the agreeable, philosophizing voice with pleasure.
The aspect of the country, in the eastern and southern parts, is flat and uninteresting; but the western parts, where it runs along the foot of the Eastern Ghats, as well as all the country northwards from Trivellam to Tripali and the Karkambadi Pass, are mountainous, with an agreeable diversity of scenery.
It is an exceptionally healthy locality, and the steep shore and open downs make it an agreeable summer resort.
In 1850 he was made bishop of Mainz, by order of the Vatican, in preference to the celebrated Professor Leopold Schmidt, of Giessen, whose Liberal sentiments were not agreeable to the Papal party.
They are of an agreeable flavour, and this especially applies to the white descriptions.
It has an agreeable odour, and has been used medicinally.
In private, his never-failing courtesy, his agreeable manners and a noble and generous heart for all who needed protection against the powerful or the lawless, endeared him to hosts of friends.
Their interest was to show that the gospel precept of universal benevolence, which owes nothing to civil enactment, was both agreeable to nature and conducive to happiness.
Fru Julia Nyberg (1785-1854), under the title of Euphrosyne, was their tenth Muse, and wrote agreeable lyrics.
The climate is healthy and agreeable, though the death-rate among the common people is abnormally high on account of personal habits and unsanitary surroundings.
Classical studies he regarded as an agreeable relaxation from severer pursuits.
In general, the sub-tropical (valle) and temperate (cabezera de valle) regions of Bolivia are healthy and agreeable, have a plentiful rainfall, moderate temperature in the shade, and varied and abundant products.
On the Andean slopes the temperature is more agreeable.
The change from London to Dublin can seldom be an agreeable one.
The forest has never so good a setting, nor is so distinctly beautiful, as when seen from the middle of a small lake amid hills which rise from the water's edge; for the water in which it is reflected not only makes the best foreground in such a case, but, with its winding shore, the most natural and agreeable boundary to it.
Stout, about the average height, broad, with huge red hands; he did not know, as the saying is, how to enter a drawing room and still less how to leave one; that is, how to say something particularly agreeable before going away.
Karagina had replied that for her part she was agreeable, and everything depend on her daughter's inclination.
Pierre was in an agreeable after-dinner mood.
But he was an energetic, clear-headed man, of great practical force and skill, cultivated, accomplished, agreeable, flexible, possibly unscrupulous, just the sort of person whom a restless despot like Justinian finds useful.
At the same time the climate is usually very agreeable from the end of February to the beginning of July, and from the end of September to the middle of November.
The engagement as tutor did not prove an agreeable one, and he soon threw it up (1771) in favour of an appointment as court preacher and member of the consistory at Biickeburg.
Pure ethyl alcohol is a colourless, mobile liquid of an agreeable odour.
The country surrounding Belfast is agreeable and picturesque, whether along the shores of the Lough or towards the girdle of hills to the west; and is well wooded and studded with country seats and villas.
He was the only bishop who voted for the disestablishment of the Irish Church, though a scheme of concurrent endowment would have been much more agreeable to him.
Nevertheless the climate is considered healthy and agreeable; copious rains fall in general in winter.
The old difficulty as to the appointments to the royal household was tactfully removed, and Tory appointments were made, which were agreeable both to the queen and to Peel.
A parcel of dried mud, coming for example from Palestine or Queensland, and after an indefinite interval of time put into water in England or elsewhere, may yield him living forms, both new and old, in the most agreeable variety.
It is of a pale brown colour, transparent, brittle, and in consequence of its agreeable odour is used for fumigation and in perfumery.
Timur is here displayed as a stoutish, long-bodied man, below the middle-height, in age and feature not unlike the first portrait, but with thicker and more straggling hair, and distincter, though not more agreeable character in the facial expression, yet not a sign of power, genius, or any elements of grandeur or celebrity.
The sap which flows in the spring is drawn off and boiled down to an agreeable spirit, or fermented with a birch-wine of considerable alcoholic strength.
At Hervey's table Johnson sometimes enjoyed feasts which were made more agreeable by contrast.
The neighbourhood is agreeable, and the Cardigan Bay shore is shelving and suitable for safe bathing.
The axolotl has been known to the Mexicans from the remotest times, as an article of food regularly brought from neighbouring lakes to the Mexico market, its flesh being agreeable and wholesome.
He was not an agreeable companion, violent in his passions, nervous, restless, and in old age extremely irascible.
The species are small trees or shrubs, armed with sharp, straight, or hooked spines, having alternate leaves, and fruits which are in most of the species edible, and have an agreeable acid taste; this is especially the case with those of the two species mentioned above.
He was compelled to send Wasif, the personal enemy of Ibn Khasib, to the frontier for a term of four years, and then to deprive his two brothers Motazz and Mowayyad, who were not agreeable to them, of their right of succession.
It is a colourless liquid with a sweetish burning taste and an agreeable odour.
Also at Fernando Po there was an annual ceremony where children born within the year were made to touch the skin of a serpent suspended from a tree in the public square.9 We have next to notice the very general belief that the household snake was an agreeable guest, if not a guardian spirit.