agreeable

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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agreeable (əˈɡrɪəb^əl)

—*adj* (foll by to or with)
1.	pleasing; pleasant
2.	prepared to consent
3.	in keeping; consistent: salaries agreeable with current trends
4.	(foll by to) to one's liking: he said the terms were not agreeable to him

a'greeableness

—n

a'greeably

—*adv*

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agreeable

late 14c., "to one's liking," from O.Fr. agreable (Mod.Fr. agréable) "capable of pleasing," from agreer "to please" (see agree).

Example sentences

The answer involves a number of fairly small things, some of which will also make flying more agreeable.

Leaving aside the climate, it is a lively, agreeable city with much great architecture and art.

Their motivation seems to be a lack of having a motivation, and a contempt for anything that isn't agreeable with their agenda.

Less agreeable is the explosion of public debt and the acceleration of a

decades-long trend: financial concentration.

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"The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Eye it appears the least."

-Joseph Addison