Both Uses
amiable
in
Music From Spain, by Eudora Welty
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- Down hill the eucalyptus trees seemed bigger in the fog than when the sun shone through them, they had the fluffiness of birds in the cold; he had the utterly strange and unamiable notion that he could hear their beating hearts.†
unamiable = not friendly or agreeablestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unamiable means not and reverses the meaning of amiable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- His black eyes were amiably following a little fly now.†
*amiably = in a friendly way
Definitions:
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(1)
(amiable) friendly, agreeable, and likable
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)