affable
Receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; friendly, courteous, sociable.
Adjective
- Receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; friendly, courteous, sociable.
- Furthermore, I may say, that the Sultan was always most affable to me in my interviews with him, even when I had to discuss some missionary questions. In fact, I never saw any traces of the difficulties which Mr....
- […] He stood bolt upright instead with his stumpy arms resting comfortably on the backsof the pilot's and co-pilot's seats, pipe in hand, making affable small talk to McWatt and whoever happened to be co-pilot and...
Synonyms: accessible civil complaisant courteous friendly gracious personable
- Mild; benign.
- During more affable weather, the four friends congregate outside, sometimes leaning their hickory chairs against a "catapa" tree[…] - 1998, Alexia Maria Kosmider, Tricky Tribal Discourse, page 84:
Origin
Borrowed from French affable, from Latin affābilis, from affor (“to address”), from ad + for (“to speak, to talk”). See fable. By surface analysis, af- + fable.
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fable fabulous fame fandango fatal fate fatuous fay ineffable infamous infamy infant infantile infantry nefarious preface