agreeable Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective conforming to your own liking or feelings or nature
    • Is the plan agreeable to you?
    • he's an agreeable fellow
    • My idea of an agreeable person...is a person who agrees with me"- Disraeli
    • an agreeable manner
  2. adjective satellite in keeping
    concordant; consonant; accordant; conformable.
    • salaries agreeable with current trends
    • plans conformable with your wishes
    • expressed views concordant with his background
  3. adjective satellite prepared to agree or consent
    • agreeable to the plan

WordNet

A*gree"a*ble adjective
Etymology
F. agréable.
Definitions
  1. Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful; as, agreeable manners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste.
    A train of agreeable reveries. Goldsmith.
  2. Willing; ready to agree or consent. Colloq.
    These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a great sum of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town. Latimer.
  3. Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; -- followed by to, rarely by with.
    That which is agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of another. L'Estrange.
  4. 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. Syn. -- Pleasing; pleasant; welcome; charming; acceptable; amiable. See Pleasant.

Webster 1913