companionable

comparative more companionable · superlative most companionable

1. Having the characteristics of a worthy companion; friendly and sociable.

   I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

   1854, Henry David Thoreau, chapter V, in Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, published 1910, page 178

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   She returned presently, bringing a smoking basin and a basket of work; and, having placed the former on the hob, drew in her seat, evidently pleased to find me so companionable.

   1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC

   All the disagreeable circumstances of my prison had become, as it were, to me friendly and companionable; not one of them gave me annoyance.

   1887, Benvenuto Cellini, chapter CXXI, in John Addington Symonds, transl., Autobiography, New York: P.F. Collier & Son, published 1910, page 240

   Then he strolled back again, kicking his heels carelessly, and a companionable silence fell between the three men.

   1908, G. K. Chesterton, chapter IX, in The Man Who Was Thursday, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, published 1910, page 154

   They are a companionable food; they make a pleasant, crunching noise when they are bitten, and so, when one is eating carrots, one can listen to the sound of one's eating and make a story from it.

   1914, James Stephens, The Demi-Gods, New York: Macmillan, published 1921, Book II, pp. 126-7

   Bottles of rye, purgative waters and eaux for every conceivable toilette made a companionable click in his worn carpet bag.

   1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, New York: Vintage, published 2004, page 100