agreeableとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 agreable, from Old French agreable. Equivalent to agree +‎ -able.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /əˈɡɹiːəbəl/, (obsolete) /əˈɡɹɪbəl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /əˈɡɹiəbəl/

形容詞

agreeable (comparative more agreeable, superlative most agreeable)

1. Able to agree; possible to be agreed.

   an agreeable contract

2. Pleasant to the senses or the mind; pleasing, satisfying, palatable.

   a man with agreeable manners

   not completely agreeable remarks

   She’s quite an agreeable person.

   This fruit has an agreeable taste.

   • 1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC:

     the train of agreeable reveries.

3. (dated) Willing; ready to agree or consent.

   If the committee is agreeable, we'll make an arrangement agreeable to both sides.

   • 1529, Hugh Latimer, sermon in Cambridge:

     These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a great sum of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town.

4. Agreeing or suitable; followed by to, or rarely by with.

   Synonyms: conformable, correspondent, concordant

   • 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:

     That which is Agreeable to the Nature of one thing, is many times Contrary to the Nature of another.

5. (used adverbially) Pursuant, conformant, accordant.

   Synonym: sympathetic

   Agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.

   • 1883, Charles Colcock Jones, The History of Georgia: Revolutionary epoch:

     And I do not know of any Indian or Indians that have taken upon them to give up any lands to the White people other than agreeable to the treaty , nor would I accept of any but from the nation

同意語

• (pleasing, pleasant): See Thesaurus:pleasant
• (willing): See Thesaurus:acquiescent
• (conforming): See Thesaurus:agreeable

派生語

名詞

agreeable (plural agreeables)

1. Something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.
   • 1855, Blackwood's magazine, volume 77, page 331:

     The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.

参照

Further reading

• “agreeable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “agreeable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.