Adjective: amiable
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more amiable |
| Superlative | most amiable |
Sample Sentences
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an amiable temper
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amiable ideas
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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:]
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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:]
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an amiable person
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My deyſy delectabyll
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My prymerose commendabyll
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My vyolet amyabyll
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My ioye in explicabill
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Nowe torne agayne to me [c. 1521, John Skelton, Speke Parott:]
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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:]
Adjectives inflected like amiable
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
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. See: Latin Adjectives '
amīcus', French Adjectives '
amiable', Latin Adjectives '
amābilis'.