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| Main Entry: |
sociable
 [soh-shuh-buhl] 
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| 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: | 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: | amicable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, especially regarding an agreement |
| Synonyms: | accordant, agreeing, amiable, civil, clubby, concordant, cordial, courteous, cozy, empathic, good-humored, harmonious, kind, kindly, like-minded, mellow, neighborly, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, polite, regular, right nice, sociable, square shooting, sympathetic, understanding |
| Antonyms: | hostile, unfriendly |
Example Sentences
- We encourage them to be outgoing, polite and sociable.
- The resort is named for its visiting pods of sociable dolphins.
- It can make normally sociable people reluctant to go out in public or talk on the telephone.
| Main Entry: | approachable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly |
| Synonyms: | affable, agreeable, congenial, cordial, open, receptive, sociable |
| Antonyms: | uncongenial, unfriendly, unsociable |
| Main Entry: | companionable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly |
| 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, tight with |
| Antonyms: | antagonistic, foreign, opposing, unfriendly |
| 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: | convivial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fun-loving |
| Synonyms: | back-slapping, cheerful, clubby, companionable, conversible, entertaining, festal, festive, friendly, gay, genial, glad-handering, happy, hearty, hilarious, holiday, jocund, jolly, jovial, lively, merry, mirthful, pleasant, sociable, vivacious |
| Antonyms: | blah, dull, serious, solemn, staid |
| Main Entry: | cooperative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | helpful |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, companionable, obliging, responsive, sociable, supportive, useful |
| Antonyms: | disobliging, encumbering, hindering, hurting, preventing, uncooperative, unhelpful, unsupportive |
| Main Entry: | easy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | good-humored |
| Synonyms: | affable, amiable, at ease, carefree, casual, complaisant, diplomatic, familiar, friendly, gentle, good-natured, good-tempered, graceful, gracious, gregarious, informal, mild, natural, obliging, open, pleasant, polite, relaxed, secure, smooth, sociable, suave, tolerant, unaffected, unanxious, undemanding, unforced, unpretentious, urbane |
| Antonyms: | difficult, unhappy |
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