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Agreeable vs Fetching - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between agreeable and fetching

is that agreeable is pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful while fetching is attractive; pleasant to regard.

As nouns the difference between agreeable and fetching

is that agreeable is something pleasing; anything that is agreeable while fetching is the act by which something is fetched.

As a verb fetching is

present participle of lang=en.

agreeable

English

(Webster 1913)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful.
    • agreeable manners
    agreeable remarks
    an agreeable person
    fruit agreeable to the taste
  • * (rfdate) (Oliver Goldsmith):
    • A train of agreeable reveries.
  • (colloquial) Willing; ready to agree or consent.
  • * (rfdate) (Hugh Latimer):
    • These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a great sum of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town.
  • Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; .
  • * (rfdate) (w, Roger L'Estrange):
    • That which is agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of another.
  • In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; (used adverbially)
    • Agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.

    Synonyms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.
  • * 1855 , Blackwood's magazine (volume 77, page 331)
    • The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.

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    fetching

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Attractive; pleasant to regard.
  • * 2000 , Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country , Chapter 1, page 11:
    • I am not, I regret to say, a discreet and fetching sleeper. Most people when they nod off look as if they could do with a blanket; I look as if I could do with medical attention.

    Verb

    (head)
  • *, chapter=6
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is fetched.
  • * 1834 , Evidence on drunkenness: presented to the House of Commons
    • These lumpers were also in the habit of inducing their men during the week to send to their pay-house for fetchings of drink, besides the money they were compelled to spend on Saturday night.