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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | acceptable; friendly |
| Synonyms: | affable, agreeable, amiable, amusing, bland, charming, cheerful, civil, civilized, congenial, convivial, cool*, copacetic, cordial, delectable, delightful, diplomatic, enchanting, engaging, enjoyable, fine, fine and dandy, fun, genial, good-humored, gracious, gratifying, homey, jolly, jovial, kindly, likable, lovely, mild, mild-mannered, nice, obliging, pleasing, pleasurable, polite, refreshing, satisfying, social, soft, sweet, sympathetic, urbane, welcome |
| Antonyms: | bothersome, disagreeable, hateful, nasty, troubling, unacceptable, unfriendly, unhappy, unpleasant, worrisome |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | affable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly |
| Synonyms: | amiable, amicable, approachable, benevolent, benign, breezy, civil, clubby, congenial, cordial, courteous, genial, gentle, good-humored, good-natured, gracious, kindly, mild, nice, obliging, pleasant, polite, sociable, urbane, warm |
| Antonyms: | complaining, disdainful, grouchy, grumbling, impolite, miserable, reserved, surly, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | agreeable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pleasing |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, dandy, delicious, delightful, enjoyable, fair, fine, gratifying, hunky-dory, mild, nice, peach, peachy*, pleasant, pleasurable, pleasureful, pussycat, ready, satisfying, spiffy, swell*, to one's liking, to one's taste, welcome |
| Antonyms: | disagreeable, discordant, distasteful, harsh, hateful, mean, nasty, offensive, unpleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | amiable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, agreeable |
| Synonyms: | affable, amicable, attractive, benign, breezy, buddy-buddy, charming, cheerful, clubby, complaisant, cool*, copacetic, cordial, cozy, delightful, downright neighborly, easy, engaging, friendly, genial, good-humored, good-natured, gracious, home cooking, kind, kindly, lenient, lovable, mellow, mild, obliging, palsy-walsy, pleasant, pleasing, princely, pussycat, responsive, right, righteous, sociable, sweet-tempered, swell*, tight*, warm, warmhearted, winning |
| Notes: | amicable implies being well disposed; amiable is acting well disposed and amiable is commonly applied only to people - though sometimes it is used for occasions, while amicable is not applied to people at all but to human interactions and their outcomes; amiable first meant 'kind' or 'lovely, lovable' and amicable first applied to things and meant 'pleasant, benign' |
| Antonyms: | crabby, disagreeable, gloomy, hateful, irritable, mean, quarrelsome, rude, surly, testy, unfriendly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | amusing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | entertaining, funny |
| Synonyms: | agreeable, boffo, camp, campy, charming, cheerful, cheering, comical, cut up, delightful, diverting, droll, enchanting, engaging, enjoyable, entertaining, for grins, fun, gladdening, gratifying, gut-busting, humorous, interesting, jocular, jokey, joshing, laughable, lively, merry, pleasant, pleasing, priceless, screaming, sidesplitting, too funny for words, witty |
| Antonyms: | annoying, boring, tiring, unfunny |
| Main Entry: | attractive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | appealing, drawing attention |
| Synonyms: | adorable, agreeable, alluring, beautiful, beckoning, bewitching, captivating, charming, comely, enchanting, engaging, enthralling, enticing, fair, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, good-looking, gorgeous, handsome, hunky, interesting, inviting, looker, lovely, luring, magnetic, mesmeric, pleasant, pleasing, prepossessing, pretty, provocative, seductive, stunning, taking, tantalizing, teasing, tempting, winning, winsome |
| Antonyms: | repellent, repulsive, ugly, unappealing, unattractive |
| Main Entry: | balmy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | comfortable with respect to weather |
| Synonyms: | mild, moderate, moist, pleasant, refreshing, summerlike, summery, temperate, tropical |
| Antonyms: | cool, inclement, wintery |
| Main Entry: | bland |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, gracious |
| Synonyms: | affable, amiable, civilized, congenial, courteous, gentle, good-natured, ingratiating, oily, pleasant, smooth, suave, unctuous, unemotional, urbane |
| Antonyms: | blase, dull, unfriendly, ungracious |
| Main Entry: | bright |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sunny, clear (weather) |
| Synonyms: | clement, cloudless, fair, favorable, limpid, lucid, mild, pellucid, pleasant, translucent, transparent, unclouded |
| Antonyms: | black, cloudy, dark, dreary, dusky, gloomy, murky |
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