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# amiable

«amiable» in Mova's school dictionary: **Friendly, pleasant and easy to like** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (amiable, more amiable, most amiable)

### meaning for a pupil

Friendly, pleasant and easy to like. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amiable/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In stories it describes a kind, cheerful character; in reports «an amiable chat». Phrases: «an amiable person», «amiable mood».

### examples

- The amiable shopkeeper gave us free sweets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amiable/#x1)
- Our new neighbour seems amiable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amiable/#x2)
- They had an amiable chat over tea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amiable/#x3)
- The giant was amiable, not scary. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amiable/#x4)
- She was amiable to everyone in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amiable/#x5)
- The dog has an amiable nature. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amiable/#x6)
- I had better have married my amiable shepherd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amiable/#x7)

### note

Adverb: amiably. Similar to «friendly», «good-natured». Do not confuse with «amicable» (friendly agreement between groups, «an amicable settlement»).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «amiable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amiable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.