Definition of "amiable"

amiable

/ˈeɪ.mi.ə.bəl/

adjective
comparative more amiable, superlative most amiable
1. Friendly; kind; sweet; gracious
  Quotations
  The sums I have lent him! indeed—I have been exceedingly to blame—it was an amiable weakness!
  1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, V.i
  A short time afterward at the opera Gerald dragged him into a parterre to say something amiable to one of the amiable débutante Craig girls—and Selwyn found himself again facing Alixe.
  1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company
2. Of a pleasant and likeable nature; kind-hearted; easy to like
  Quotations
  My deyſy delectabyllMy prymerose commendabyllMy vyolet amyabyllMy ioye in explicabillNowe torne agayne to me
  c. 1521, John Skelton, Speke Parott
  A short time afterward at the opera Gerald dragged him into a parterre to say something amiable to one of the amiable débutante Craig girls—and Selwyn found himself again facing Alixe.
  1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company