amiable

comparative more amiable · superlative most amiable

1. Friendly; kind; sweet; gracious.

   amiable ideas

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   an amiable temper

   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, →OCLC

   He has described himself as the uber-geek, an anorak's anorak, a standard bearer for fellow Star Trekkies everywhere, and his air of bland, amiable bafflement has served him remarkably well in a string of TV and film roles.

   2007 February 15, Maev Kennedy, “I used to say he was England's answer to John Cusack. Now I think he's England's answer to Jack Lemmon”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2025

2. Of a pleasant and likeable nature; kind-hearted; easy to like.

   an amiable person

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   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, →OCLC