Adjective

(head)

* {{quote-news, 1988, February 19, Lawrence Bommer, The Radio Play, Chicago Reader citation

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Adjective

(en adjective)

Receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; friendly, courteous, sociable.

* 1912 : James Burrill Angell, , chapter ix "Mission To The Ottoman Empire"

Furthermore, I may say, that the Sultan was always most affable to me in my interviews with him, even when I had to discuss some missionary questions. In fact, I never saw any traces of the difficulties which Mr. Terrell reported.

Mild; benign.

* 1998 : Alexia Maria Kosmider, Tricky Tribal Discourse , page 84

During more affable weather, the four friends congregate outside, sometimes leaning their hickory chairs against a "catapa" tree...