Meanings
comparative more agreeably · superlative most agreeably
- In an agreeable or pleasing manner.
What a game this was in those early minutes. Germany were also agreeably fluid, with a fine natural width. But they also looked like a champion team short-handed heading back towards their own goal.
2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2019Synonyms: becomingly, favourably, pleasingly
- In accordance.
Walter was not a little surprised when he came back in the course of the forenoon, agreeably to his promise, to find Mr Brogley sitting in the back parlour with his hands in his pockets, and his hat hanging up behind the door.
1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLCSynonyms: suitably, consistently, conformably, accordantly, accordingly, appropriately, becomingly, compliantly
- obsoleteAlike; similarly.
Synonyms: in kind, alike, equivalently, in kind, likewise, otherways, reciprocally, similarly
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbIn an agreeable or pleasing manner.
adverbIn accordance.
adverbAlike; similarly.
More synonyms by meaning
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishagreablely
- Englishagreeably
From Middle English agreablely, agreably; equivalent to agreeable + -ly.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan agradablement
- agradablementin an agreeable manner
Esperanto agrable
- agrablein an agreeable manner
French agréablement
- agréablementin an agreeable manner
German angenehm
- angenehmin an agreeable manner
Italian gradevolmente
- gradevolmentein an agreeable manner
Portuguese agradavelmente
- agradavelmentein an agreeable manner
Romanian agreabil, în mod agreabil
- agreabilin an agreeable manner
- în mod agreabilin an agreeable manner
Russian прия́тно
- прия́тно (prijátno)in an agreeable manner
Spanish agradablemente
- agradablementein an agreeable manner
Cite this entry
agreeably. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/agreeably
“agreeably.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/agreeably. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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