Sociable vs Personable - What's the difference?
sociable | personable |
Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
* Shakespeare
Offering opportunities for conversation; characterized by much conversation.
(archaic) Capable of being, or fit to be, united in one body or company; associable.
* Hooker
(obsolete) No longer hostile; friendly.
(of a person) Having a pleasing appearance or manner; attractive; handsome; friendly; amiable.
* Spenser
* 1822 , , The Fortunes of Nigel , ch. 19:
* 1908 , , A Room With a View , ch. 12:
* 1919 , . The Sun Of Quebec , ch. 5:
* 2009 , Randy James, "
(legal) Enabled to maintain pleas in court.
Having capacity to take anything granted.
As adjectives the difference between sociable and personable
is that sociable is tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial while personable is having a pleasing appearance or manner; attractive; handsome; friendly; amiable.sociable
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Adjective
(en adjective)- He's normally pretty quiet, but he gets much more sociable around women.
- Society is no comfort to one not sociable .
- a sociable party
- They are sociable parts united into one body.
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Antonyms
* unsociable ----personable
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete) * (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Wise, warlike, personable , courteous, and kind.
- I admit him a personable man, for I have seen him; and I will suppose him courteous and agreeable.
- Barefoot, bare-chested, radiant and personable against the shadowy woods, he called: "Hullo, Miss Honeychurch! Hullo!"
- I'm bound to admit that you're a personable young rascal, with the best manners I've met in a long time.
2-Min. Bio: Stephanie Birkitt: Letterman's Lover?," Time , 5 Oct.:
- Aside from being incredibly funny and personable he is generous, kind and is great fun to play catch with.
- (Cowell)
