Agreeable vs Well-behaved - What's the difference?
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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)
(of a person or animal) Having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour;
:The boy is well behaved and is seldom naughty.
(mathematics) Having intuitive, easy to handle properties. Especially:
(mathematics) (of a function ) Having a finite derivative (of all orders) at all points, and having no discontinuities
As adjectives the difference between agreeable and well-behaved
is that agreeable is pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful while well-behaved is having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour.As a noun agreeable
is something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.agreeable
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.