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Agreeable vs Sociable - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between agreeable and sociable

is that agreeable is pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful while sociable is tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.

As a noun agreeable

is something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.

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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    sociable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
    • He's normally pretty quiet, but he gets much more sociable around women.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Society is no comfort to one not sociable .
  • Offering opportunities for conversation; characterized by much conversation.
    • a sociable party
  • (archaic) Capable of being, or fit to be, united in one body or company; associable.
  • * Hooker
    • They are sociable parts united into one body.
  • (obsolete) No longer hostile; friendly.
    • (Beaumont and Fletcher)

    Antonyms

    * unsociable ----