Definition of Agreeable

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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

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

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

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
Jane Austen

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Jane Austen

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
Blaise Pascal

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Immanuel Kant

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Francis Bacon

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous Huxley

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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