Opportune vs Agreeable - What's the difference?
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Suitable for some particular purpose.
At a convenient or advantageous time.
Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful.
* (rfdate) (Oliver Goldsmith):
(colloquial) Willing; ready to agree or consent.
* (rfdate) (Hugh Latimer):
Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; .
* (rfdate) (w, Roger L'Estrange):
In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; (used adverbially)
Something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.
* 1855 , Blackwood's magazine (volume 77, page 331)
As adjectives the difference between opportune and agreeable
is that opportune is suitable for some particular purpose while agreeable is pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful.As a noun agreeable is
something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.opportune
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This would be an opportune spot for a picnic
- The opportune arrival of the bus cut short the boring conversation
Antonyms
* inopportuneagreeable
English
(Webster 1913)Adjective
(en adjective)- agreeable manners
- agreeable remarks
- an agreeable person
- fruit agreeable to the taste
- A train of agreeable reveries.
- 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.
- That which is agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of another.
- Agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.
Synonyms
*Noun
(en noun)- The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.