Peaceable vs Agreeable - What's the difference?
peaceable | agreeable | Related terms |
Favouring peace rather than conflict; not aggressive, tending to avoid violence (of people, actions etc.).
* 1999 , Faisal Bodi, The Guardian , 29 Dec 1999:
* 2011 , ‘Feeling understandably twitchy’, The Economist , 8 Feb 2011:
Characterized by peace; peaceful, tranquil.
* , Episode 16:
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 peaceable and agreeable
is that peaceable is favouring peace rather than conflict; not aggressive, tending to avoid violence (of people, actions etc.) while agreeable is pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful.As a noun agreeable is
something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.peaceable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- But in the Muslim world we are dealing with regimes who have banished, imprisoned, silenced or neutralised all opposition, even where this is entirely peaceable .
- But if you talk to people here privately, they suggest there are three possible scenarios. The first (intended to sound incredible) is that Israel’s biggest neighbour will be transformed into a peaceable , pluralist democracy.
- Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head [...].
Derived terms
* peaceability * peaceableness * peaceablySee also
* peacefulagreeable
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.
