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Definition of Agreeable
Agreeable

Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful; as, agreeable manners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste.

Willing; ready to agree or consent.

Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; -- followed by to, rarely by with.

In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; -- in this sense used adverbially for agreeably; as, agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.

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Agreeable Quotations

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph Addison

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
Winston Churchill

Agreeable Translations

agreeable in Afrikaans is heerlik, aangenaam, lekker
agreeable in Danish is behagelig
agreeable in Dutch is aangenaam, behaaglijk, genoeglijk
agreeable in German is angenehm
agreeable in Latin is facilis, iucundus, dulcis, acceptus
agreeable in Spanish is conforme, grato, agradable

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