sociable [soh-shuh-buhl] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
sociable [soh-shuh-buhl]
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
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.
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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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