amiable

adjective
🔊/ˈeɪmiəbl/
🔊/ˈeɪmiəbl/
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  1. pleasant; friendly and easy to like和蔼可亲的;亲切友好的 synonym agreeable
    • an amiable tone of voice亲切的声调
    • Her parents seemed very amiable.她的父母好像很和蔼可亲。🔊🔊
    Extra Examples
    • I've only met Jane once but she seems amiable enough.我只见过简一次,但她好像还算友好。
    • a perfectly amiable young man特别亲切友好的年轻人
    Topics Personal qualitiesc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • look
    • seem
    adverb
    • extremely
    • fairly
    • very
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    Word Originlate Middle English (originally in the senses ‘kind’, and ‘lovely, lovable’): via Old French from late Latin amicabilis ‘amicable’. The current sense, influenced by modern French aimable ‘trying to please’, dates from the mid 18th cent.