(a.) Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful; as, agreeable manners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste.
(a.) Willing; ready to agree or consent.
(a.) Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; -- followed by to, rarely by with.
(a.) In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; -- in this sense used adverbially for agreeably; as, agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.
Example Sentences:
(1) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
(2) Others in more agreeable confines should take this opportunity to load up on trans-fats and get set for what should be a cracker.
(3) Results indicated that the FFM personality dimensions of Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Agreeableness were most apparent in the DSM-III-R conceptualizations of the personality disorders.
(4) Although the oral environment with high humidity and high temperature was not agreeable for the sensors, resolution was estimated at better than 3 microns including the effects of system drift.
(5) They notably need, in agreement with the Institutions, to: carry out ambitious pension reforms and specify policies to fully compensate for the fiscal impact of the Constitutional Court ruling on the 2012 pension reform and to implement the zero deficit clause or mutually agreeable alternative measures by October 2015; adopt more ambitious product market reforms with a clear timetable for implementation of all OECD toolkit I recommendations, including Sunday trade, sales periods, pharmacy ownership, milk and bakeries, except over-the-counter pharmaceutical products, which will be implemented in a next step, as well as for the opening of macro-critical closed professions (e.g.
(6) PUVA is an effective and agreeable therapy for recalcitrant psoriasis.
(7) For instance, Joe Orton's plays could never be performed again, as the diaries published after his death are explicit about why he found Tangiers in the 1960s such an agreeable location for vacations.
(8) The gently undulating headlands are covered in a blanket of long grass, making picnicking and sunbathing agreeable throughout the day.
(9) The difference toward lower agreeableness was not significant when controlling for multiple comparisons.
(10) Both schizophrenics and personality disordered patients were significantly less agreeable in childhood than their respective controls.
(11) Agreeableness This personality dimension includes attributes such as trust, altruism, kindness, affection and other pro-social behaviours.
(12) Producing sufficient analgesia and having, all told, comparable side-effects, this method was experienced by all patients as being more agreeable than the previously used oral mode of application.
(13) The minister is agreeable to discuss other matters,” she said.
(14) Crucially, and here no one would have missed the significance, "the president invited Narendra Modi to visit Washington at a mutually agreeable time to further strengthen our bilateral relationship," said a government spokesperson.
(15) They perch temporarily in Britain because it has both a hyper-relaxed attitude to "wealth generation" and is a very agreeable place to live – you even get invited to Tory fundraising events.
(16) Slow recoveries can be monitored for even longer if agreeable with the patient.
(17) In the evaluation of the correlation between standardized uric acid level and the YG 12 personality traits, significant correlation was observed in "Lack of agreeableness" and "Rhathymia".
(18) A 444leucine to proline mutation detected by a NciI polymorphism in the human glucocerebrosidase gene was studied to investigate the correlation of the three clinical phenotypes of Gaucher disease with this mutation in 11 Japanese patients with Gaucher disease (type I, 8 patients; type II, 1 patient; type III, 2 patients) and to determine the feasibility of the use of genomic probe DNA for carrier detection and prenatal diagnosis in 8 Japanese families with Gaucher disease and agreeable to family study (type I, 6 families; type III, 2 families).
(19) The photodamage on cells was also studied with 3 T 3 mouse cells (conversion), showing agreeable results to that with liver cancer cells, which suggests that ALSPC's photocytotoxic effect is nonselective to cell types.
(20) The AWA is a short little statute, giving federal courts the power to “issue all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of their respective jurisdictions and agreeable to the usages and principles of law.” The FBI argues that the AWA empowers a court to order Apple to create custom software to circumvent the security on an iPhone possessed by one of the San Bernadino shooting suspects.
Congeniality
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity; adaptation; suitableness.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I find it very congenial to live in the natural beauty of the place I have in Connecticut.
(2) Yes, Scottish leader Ruth Davidson was congenial and popular, but she was still, you know, a Tory.
(3) They are "very congenial, caring people," said Pieters-James.
(4) Additionally, it is suggested that the conditioning analysis of tolerance is congenial with a current view of habituation, and there may be a similar associative basis for the response decrement to both endogenous and exogenous iterative stimulation.
(5) Paget dramatized this clear distinction between the intrinsic properties of the cancer cell and the properties of the host when he expanded on the analogy between tumors and plants: "When a plant goes to seed, its seeds are carried in all directions; but they can only live and grow if they fall on congenial soil."
(6) The active transport system is congenial to fluorescine - Km = 4-10(-5) M, which renders even small amounts of this substance to be quickly removed from the milieu.
(7) The medium mountain ranges have a congenial climate in connection with its abundant forests.
(8) She said she was enjoying the kindness and congeniality of the crowd, an antidote, she said, to the negativity of the last 18 months.
(9) Physical and mental activity, good health, adequate means, well considered accommodation, an absorbing interest, congenial company and a philosophy which encompasses mortality are among the assets and attitudes which may promote successful retirement.
(10) Another showing for Sandra Bullock film Miss Congeniality on Channel Five had 1.2 million viewers and a 5% share between 9pm and 11.10pm.
(11) Face set with the look of determined congeniality, glass of orange juice in hand, Young (who generally cares so little about "promotion" that he didn't bother to include any songs from the-then new On the Beach in Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 74 tour repertoire) braced himself to face the press, a few at a time in manager Elliot Roberts' Sunset Strip office, a fortnight before the release of Tonight's the Night .
(12) He said mixed classrooms were “far more congenial”, and he had “much preferred” being head of a school where children of both sexes were taught.
(13) The bloody creeks of the Niger delta may yet seem strangely congenial.
(14) The well-known autosomal-recessive inheritance of the disease was masked by a pseudodominant appearance, reflecting the striking frequency of congenial marriages.
(15) In person, in private, he displays a congenial persona not always evident at the dispatch box.
(16) In perfectly bucolic and culturally congenial surroundings, Hawthorne's imagination took flight and his pen dashed over the page, producing 21 stories, many of which, including "Rappaccini's Daughter", would be collected in 1846 as Mosses from an Old Manse.
(17) A very congenial silence for the CBI and other business lobby groups, who can urge ministers to cut benefits for the poor harder and faster, knowing their members are still getting their bungs.
(18) Even colleagues who disagree violently with his view of the world concede that Wolfowitz was far more congenial than the usual Washington apparatchik.
(19) These achievement-congenial conditions characterize entrepreneurial business and, among those occupations traditionally filled by women, teaching.
(20) On a personal level, Neuberger is giving up a comfortable berth at the law courts in the Strand, where he can choose to sit with the most congenial of his many fellow judges, in exchange for a much smaller 12-judge court in Westminster, physically isolated from the rest of the judiciary and where tensions are never far below the surface.