Adjective

(en adjective)

Significant; worth considering.

Large in amount.

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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.