(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.
Likeable
Definition:
(a.) See Likable.
Example Sentences:
(1) A ceremony will take place at which Jolie will receive the child, who is said to be healthy, likeable, a bit shy and keen on football.
(2) "It is not a likeable work," ran one unfavourable review, "containing little humour or tenderness or modesty.
(3) Denis Napthine, a former country vet, is like your favourite uncle – a bit of a dag but highly likeable.
(4) Sex differences in the perception of touching were investigated by having 25 male and 25 female college students rate how likeable a touch would be under different conditions.
(5) And trust and likeability come from being honest, not always from being nice.
(6) And that is not easy.” Clinton faced questions about her “likeability” during her failed campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.
(7) , G2, 21 March), a likeable person with whom I once shared a public platform.
(8) No wonder David Cameron wanted to have at his side the man who so successfully enhances his likeability .
(9) You might dislike the prime minister's policies – and that's fine – but he and the chancellor are two very likeable and good men, as well as politicians that care deeply about others, and their colleagues know it.
(10) "It's all past history as far as the group is concerned," comforts their instantly likeable manager Joe Moss as we wait in a west London recording studio for the Smiths' imminent return from a Thameside photo session.
(11) But the need for likeable heroes may instead ensure that the Bushes and Obamas will take the blame – leaving Ronald Reagan up there with George Washington, founding hero of the republic, and with Abraham Lincoln, its saviour.
(12) Female characters in books, movies and on TV are meant to be likeable and, as nymag.com points out this week, if they're not, the problem is usually explained away as a medical problem (such as Homeland's Carrie being bipolar.)
(13) Three homogeneous and stable factors emerged from a factor analyss: Aggression, Withdrawal and Likeability.
(14) If there was a fear before this Olympics began that it would be a corporatised, soulless event, the effort and enthusiasm of the volunteers have filled it with a likeably amateur and properly human warmth.
(15) I liked it.” In private Defour is likeable, though he can find privacy difficult.
(16) But they also may be tackling broader concerns about the party’s likeability, after the party spent most of this week on the wrong side of public opinion over issues such as the non-domicile tax status .
(17) But while the radical increase of women in the workforce has shifted views, we're still not living in a society that sees women and men as equally competent, likeable and authoritative.
(18) As we know, this manifesto for women in the boardroom tells us that the correlation between women being judged 'likeable' and their position in a hierarchy are inversely proportionate.
(19) This led directly to Briers working with Branagh on many subsequent projects: as a perhaps too likeable Malvolio ("My best part, and I know it," he said) in an otherwise wintry Twelfth Night at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, in 1987, and on a world tour with the Renaissance company as a ropey King Lear (the set really was a mass of ropes, the production dubbed "String Lear") and a sagacious, though not riotously funny, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(20) I am not so very old, but I'm old enough to have noticed that the times in my life when I was most admired by men, the times when I was considered most likeable, were also the times when I was most vulnerable, most powerless and unsure of myself.