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amiable

/ˈeɪ.mi.ə.bəl/

amiable adjective: friendly; kind; sweet; gracious.

Adjective

amiable (comparative more amiable, superlative most amiable)

  1. Friendly; kind; sweet; gracious.
    • an amiable temper
    • amiable ideas
  2. Of a pleasant and likeable nature; kind-hearted; easy to like.
    • an amiable person
    • My deyſy delectabyll
      My prymerose commendabyll
      My vyolet amyabyll
      My ioye in explicabill
      Nowe torne agayne to mec. 1521, John Skelton, Speke Parott

amiable meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

amiable in Urdu

خوب

amiable in Bengali

প্রীতিকর, বন্ধুভাবাপন্ন

amiable in Malayalam

മനസ്സിനിണങ്ങിയ, സ്നേഹമുളള, രമ്യസ്വഭാവമുളള, പ്രിയങ്കരമായ

amiable in Kannada

ಒಳ್ಳೆನಡತೆಯ, ನಣ್ಪಿನ, ಸ್ನೇಹಪರ, ವಿಶ್ವಾಸಪರ, ಪ್ರೀತಿಪಾತ್ರ
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amiable in Thai
เป็นมิตร bpen-mít

Examples of amiable in a sentence

  • The sums I have lent him! indeed—I have been exceedingly to blame—it was an amiable weakness!1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, V.i:
  • A short time afterward at the opera Gerald dragged him into a parterre to say something amiable to one of the amiable débutante Craig girls—and Selwyn found himself again facing Alixe.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

All 25 example sentences with amiable

Synonyms of amiable

Forms of amiable

comparativemore amiable
superlativemost amiable

Origin of amiable

From Middle English amyable, from Old French amiable, from Late Latin amīcābilis (“friendly”), from Latin amīcus (“friend”), from amō (“love”, verb). The meaning has been influenced by French amiable and Latin amābilis (“loveable”) (whence English aimable and amable). Doublet of amicable. Compare with amorous, amability.

Words formed from amiable

Questions about amiable

What does amiable mean?
Amiable means friendly; kind; sweet; gracious.
What is amiable in Urdu?
Amiable in Urdu is خوب. See Amiable meaning in Urdu.
How do you use amiable in a sentence?
The sums I have lent him! indeed—I have been exceedingly to blame—it was an amiable weakness!
What part of speech is amiable?
Amiable is an adjective.
How do you pronounce amiable?
Amiable is pronounced /ˈeɪ.mi.ə.bəl/.

Words near amiable in the dictionary

  1. ami
  2. ami-momi
  3. amia
  4. amiabilities
  5. amiability
  6. amiable
  7. amiableness
  8. amiablenesses
  9. amiably
  10. amianth
  11. amianthiform

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Adapted from Wiktionary: amiable (page history and authors); amiable (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); amiable (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); amiable (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); amiable (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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