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Agreeable vs Amusing - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between agreeable and amusing

is that agreeable is pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful while amusing is entertaining.

As a noun agreeable

is something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.

As a verb amusing 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

    *

    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.

    amusing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Entertaining.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=5 citation , passage=‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-12-21
  • , author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot , title=Your gift at Christmas will soon be junk , volume=188, issue=2, page=24 , date=2012-12-10 , magazine= citation , passage=They seem amusing on the first day of Christmas, daft on the second, embarrassing on the third. By the twelfth they're in landfill. For 30 seconds of dubious entertainment, or a hedonic stimulus that lasts no longer than a nicotine hit, we commission the use of materials whose impacts will ramify for generations.}}
  • Funny, hilarious.
  • Synonyms

    * See also * See also

    Antonyms

    * unamusing

    Derived terms

    * amusingness