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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | informative |
| Synonyms: | candid, chatty, communicable, conversable, conversational, demonstrative, effusive, enlightening, expansive, forthcoming, frank, garrulous, gushing, loquacious, open, outgoing, talkative, unreserved, voluble |
| Antonyms: | close-mouthed, reserved, reticent, unfriendly, uninformative, unsociable |
| Main Entry: | congenial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, compatible |
| Synonyms: | adapted, affable, agreeable, amical, clubby, companionable, compatible, complaisant, congruous, consistent, consonant, conversable, convivial, cooperative, cordial, delightful, favorable, fit, genial, good-humored, gracious, happy, harmonious, jovial, kindly, kindred, like-minded, mellow, pleasant, pleasing, regular fellow, right neighborly, sociable, social, suitable, sympathetic, well-suited |
| Antonyms: | disagreeable, ill-suited, incompatible, uncongenial, unfriendly, unsympathetic |
| Main Entry: | jovial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy |
| Synonyms: | affable, airy, amiable, animated, bantering, blithe, blithesome, bouncy, buoyant, chaffing, cheery, chipper, chirpy, companionable, conversable, convivial, cordial, daffy, delightful, dizzy*, enjoyable, facetious, festal, festive, gay, glad, gleeful, good-natured, hilarious, humorous, jocose, jocund, jokey, jolly, jollying, joshing, jubilant, larking, lighthearted, loony, lots of laughs, merry, mirthful, nutty, off-the-wall, pleasant, sociable |
| Notes: | jovial refers to a mood or disposition, jocular to a conduct or manner |
| Antonyms: | sad, unhappy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sociable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, outgoing |
| Synonyms: | accessible, affable, approachable, close, clubby, companionable, conversable, convivial, cordial, familiar, genial, good-natured, gregarious, intimate, neighborly, regular, social, warm |
| Antonyms: | introverted, snobbish, unfriendly, unkind, unsociable |
| Main Entry: | matey |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | companionable |
| Synonyms: | affable, amicable, buddy buddy, clubby, complacent, congenial, conversable, convivial, cordial, cozy, cozy with, familiar, genial, good-natured, gregarious, intimate, mellow, neighborly, outgoing, pally, palsy, sociable, social, tight with, tight* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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