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Synonyms for amiable
ˈeɪ mi ə bəlami·able

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Wiktionary3.0 / 3 votes

  1. amiableadjective

    Synonyms:
    likable

  2. amiableadjective

    Friendly; kind; sweet; gracious; as, an amiable temper or mood; amiable ideas.

    Synonyms:
    likable

  3. amiableadjective

    Possessing sweetness of disposition; having sweetness of temper; kindhearted; which causes one to be liked; as, an amiable person.

    Synonyms:
    likable

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. amiable

    Amiable combines the senses of lovable or lovely and loving; the amiable character has ready affection and kindliness for others, with the qualities that are adapted to win their love; amiable is a higher and stronger word than good-natured or agreeable. Lovely is often applied to externals; as, a lovely face. Amiable denotes a disposition desirous to cheer, please, and make happy. A selfish man of the world may have the art to be agreeable; a handsome, brilliant, and witty person may be charming or even attractive, while by no means amiable. The engaging, winning, and winsome add to amiability something of beauty, accomplishments, and grace. The benignant are calmly kind, as from a height and a distance. Kind, good-natured people may be coarse and rude, and so fail to be agreeable or pleasing; the really amiable are likely to avoid such faults by their earnest desire to please. The good-natured have an easy disposition to get along comfortably with every one in all circumstances. A sweet disposition is very sure to be amiable, the loving heart bringing out all that is lovable and lovely in character.

    Synonyms:
    agreeable, attractive, benignant, engaging, gentle, good-natured, harming, kind, lovable, lovely, loving, pleasant, pleasing, sweet, winning, winsome

    Antonyms:
    acrimonious, churlish, crabbed, cruel, crusty, disagreeable, dogged, gruff, hateful, ill-conditioned, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, morose, sour, sullen, surly, unamiable, unlovely

Princeton's WordNet2.7 / 3 votes

  1. amiable, good-humored, good-humouredadjective

    disposed to please

    "an amiable villain with a cocky sidelong grin"- Hal Hinson

    Synonyms:
    good-humored, good-humoured, genial, cordial, affable

    Antonyms:
    ill-natured, unfriendly

  2. affable, amiable, cordial, genialadjective

    diffusing warmth and friendliness

    "an affable smile"; "an amiable gathering"; "cordial relations"; "a cordial greeting"; "a genial host"

    Synonyms:
    good-humored, good-humoured, cordial, kind, affable, mental, genial

    Antonyms:
    unfriendly, ill-natured

Dictionary of English Synonymes2.0 / 1 vote

  1. amiableadjective

    Synonyms:
    lovable, lovely, sweet, engaging, charming, winning, facile, benignant, benign, sweet-tempered, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, worthy of love

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. amiableadjective

    Synonyms:
    gracious, good-natured, benign, obliging, benignant, affable

    Antonyms:
    unamiable

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "amiable":

    amicable, friendly, cordial, lovable

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD5.0 / 1 vote

  1. AMIABLE

    Synonyms:
    Acute Myocardial Infarction, Angioplasty Bolus Lysis Evaluation

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How to use amiable in a sentence?

  1. Queen Victoria:

    I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.

  2. Bharat Mistry:

    It must have been no more than 3 feet onto his land, it is above head height, the bottom of the branches start at about 8 feet high and we have cut off the branches lower down to be amiable with them.

  3. Samuel Butler:

    People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.

  4. John Adams:

    Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the latent spark... If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?

  5. Johann von Goethe:

    A man's errors are what make him amiable.


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  • وديArabic
  • дружелюбен, приветлив, мил, любезен, симпатиченBulgarian
  • elskværdigDanish
  • liebenswürdig, liebenswertGerman
  • ευγενικόςGreek
  • afable, amableSpanish
  • avatudEstonian
  • دوستانهPersian
  • rakastettava, ystävällinenFinnish
  • aimableFrench
  • grámharIrish
  • सुHindi
  • affettuoso, amabile, affabileItalian
  • 愛想のいいJapanese
  • hūmārika, whakahoahoaMāori
  • amávelPortuguese
  • добродушный, любезный, дружественный, симпатичный, привлекательный, милый, дружелюбный, приветливыйRussian
  • привітнийUkrainian

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