Meaning & use
agreeable
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Meanings
adjectivecomparable
Pleasant and enjoyable, or easy and friendly to be with.
Grammar: Used before a noun (an agreeable evening) or after a linking verb (she is agreeable).
Patterns
- agreeable to someone
- an agreeable something
We spent an agreeable afternoon walking along the river.
He was an agreeable companion on the long train ride.
The hotel offered agreeable rooms at a fair price.
adjectiveafter a verbformal
Willing to accept a suggestion or plan, or happy to go along with others.
Grammar: Used after be, often followed by to: they were agreeable to the plan.
Patterns
- be agreeable to something
- be agreeable to doing something
If the date is agreeable to everyone, we will meet on Monday.
She was agreeable to a smaller bonus in exchange for extra vacation.
Are you agreeable to moving the meeting to noon?
Word forms
| comparative | more agreeable |
|---|---|
| superlative | most agreeable |
Common combinations
- agreeable to
- Is that time agreeable to you?
- an agreeable surprise
- The cheap price was an agreeable surprise.
- agreeable company
- He is agreeable company on a long trip.
- mutually agreeable
- The two sides found a mutually agreeable solution.
- agreeable weather
- The agreeable weather encouraged everyone to eat outside.
Synonyms and how they differ
- pleasant
- Pleasant is the everyday word for anything nice, but agreeable adds a sense of being easy and unproblematic.
- amenable
- Amenable means open to being persuaded or guided, which fits only the willing sense of agreeable.
- likable
- Likable describes a person who is easy to like, and does not cover plans or events.
- willing
- Willing says only that someone is ready to do something, with no suggestion of pleasantness.
Opposites
Word family
- agree verb
- to have the same opinion or to accept
- agreeably adverb
- in a pleasant or accepting way
- agreeableness noun
- the quality of being pleasant and cooperative
- agreement noun
- a shared decision or arrangement
- disagreeable adjective
- unpleasant or unfriendly
Commonly confused: agreeable or agreed?
agreeable vs agreed
Agreed means that people have said yes to something already, while agreeable describes something pleasant or acceptable.
Practice
If the schedule is ___ to everyone, we will begin at nine.
Choose one answer.
Agreeable to someone means acceptable to them. Agreed would be used after the decision is made and does not take to in this way, and agreeing and agreement do not fit the grammar.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “agreeable”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.