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Agreeable vs Consenting - What's the difference?

agreeable | Consenting |

As adjectives the difference between agreeable and Consenting

is that agreeable is pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful while Consenting is willing and able to give consent.

As a noun agreeable

is something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.

As a verb Consenting is

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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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    Consenting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Willing and able to give consent.
    • The law prohibits payment for sex, even between consenting''' adults .