All 4 Uses
amiable
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Major Barbara
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- Lady Britomart is a woman of fifty or thereabouts, well dressed and yet careless of her dress, well bred and quite reckless of her breeding, well mannered and yet appallingly outspoken and indifferent to the opinion of her interlocutory, amiable and yet peremptory, arbitrary, and high-tempered to the last bearable degree, and withal a very typical managing matron of the upper class, treated as a naughty child until she grew into a scolding mother, and finally settling down with plenty of practical ability and worldly experience, limited in the oddest way with domestic and class limitations, conceiving the universe exactly as if it were a large house in Wilton Crescent, though handling her co†
Act 1amiable = friendly, agreeable, and likable
- I find myself in a specially amiable humor just now because, this morning, down at the foundry, we blew twenty-seven dummy soldiers into fragments with a gun which formerly destroyed only thirteen.†
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- Cusins drifts amiably to the armchair, and Lomax remains near the door, whilst Sarah comes to her mother.†
Act 3amiably = in a friendly way
- He is a very amiable good fellow; but he is a Greek scholar and naturally a little eccentric.†
Act 3amiable = friendly, agreeable, and likable
Definitions:
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(1)
(amiable) friendly, agreeable, and likable
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)