Synonyms for amiable
ˈeɪ mi ə bəlami·able

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1. amiableadjective

   Synonyms:
   likable

2. amiableadjective

   Friendly; kind; sweet; gracious; as, an amiable temper or mood; amiable ideas.

   Synonyms:
   likable

3. amiableadjective

   Possessing sweetness of disposition; having sweetness of temper; kindhearted; which causes one to be liked; as, an amiable person.

   Synonyms:
   likable

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1. amiable

   Amiable combines the senses of lovable or lovely and loving; the amiable character has ready affection and kindliness for others, with the qualities that are adapted to win their love; amiable is a higher and stronger word than good-natured or agreeable. Lovely is often applied to externals; as, a lovely face. Amiable denotes a disposition desirous to cheer, please, and make happy. A selfish man of the world may have the art to be agreeable; a handsome, brilliant, and witty person may be charming or even attractive, while by no means amiable. The engaging, winning, and winsome add to amiability something of beauty, accomplishments, and grace. The benignant are calmly kind, as from a height and a distance. Kind, good-natured people may be coarse and rude, and so fail to be agreeable or pleasing; the really amiable are likely to avoid such faults by their earnest desire to please. The good-natured have an easy disposition to get along comfortably with every one in all circumstances. A sweet disposition is very sure to be amiable, the loving heart bringing out all that is lovable and lovely in character.

   Synonyms:
   agreeable, attractive, benignant, engaging, gentle, good-natured, harming, kind, lovable, lovely, loving, pleasant, pleasing, sweet, winning, winsome

   Antonyms:
   acrimonious, churlish, crabbed, cruel, crusty, disagreeable, dogged, gruff, hateful, ill-conditioned, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, morose, sour, sullen, surly, unamiable, unlovely

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1. amiable

   Synonyms:
   lovable, good, kind, benevolent, charitable, delectable, engaging, fascinating, agreeable, lovely, pleading, charming, attractive

   Antonyms:
   churlish, disagreeable, hateful, abominable, ill-natured, ill-conditioned, unamiable

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1. amiable, good-humored, good-humouredadjective

   disposed to please

   "an amiable villain with a cocky sidelong grin"- Hal Hinson

   Synonyms:
   good-humored, good-humoured, genial, cordial, affable

   Antonyms:
   ill-natured, unfriendly

2. affable, amiable, cordial, genialadjective

   diffusing warmth and friendliness

   "an affable smile"; "an amiable gathering"; "cordial relations"; "a cordial greeting"; "a genial host"

   Synonyms:
   good-humored, good-humoured, cordial, kind, affable, mental, genial

   Antonyms:
   unfriendly, ill-natured

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1. amiableadjective

   Synonyms:
   lovable, lovely, sweet, engaging, charming, winning, facile, benignant, benign, sweet-tempered, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, worthy of love

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1. amiableadjective

   Synonyms:
   gracious, good-natured, benign, obliging, benignant, affable

   Antonyms:
   unamiable

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1. List of paraphrases for "amiable":

   amicable, friendly, cordial, lovable

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. AMIABLE

   Synonyms:
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1. Sophie Swetchine:

   How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

2. John Henry Newman:

   In this world no one rules by love if you are but amiable, you are no hero to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

3. Johann von Goethe:

   A man's errors are what make him amiable.

4. John Adams:

   Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the latent spark... If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?

5. Charlie Beckett:

   It certainly stands out as the most enthusiastic, amiable relationship... it's unprecedented.