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comparative more agreeable, superlative most agreeable
Able to agree; possible to be agreed. examples
Pleasant to the senses or the mind. quotations examples
the train of agreeable reveries.
1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […]; reprinted London: Elliot Stock, 1885,
(dated) Willing; ready to agree or consent. quotations examples
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.
1529, Hugh Latimer, sermon in Cambridge
Agreeing or suitable; followed by to, or rarely by with. quotations examples
That which is Agreeable to the Nature of one thing, is many times Contrary to the Nature of another.
1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […]
(used adverbially) Pursuant, conformant, accordant. quotations examples
And I do not know of any Indian or Indians that have taken upon them to give up any lands to the White people other than agreeable to the treaty , nor would I accept of any but from the nation
1883, Charles Colcock Jones, The History of Georgia: Revolutionary epoch
plural agreeables
Something pleasing; anything that is agreeable. quotations examples
The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.
1855, Blackwood's magazine, volume 77, page 331