different between accessible vs agreeable

English

Etymology

First attested in 1400, from French, from Late Latin accessibilis, from accessus, perfect passive participle of acc?d? (“approach”)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?s?s.?.b?l/

Adjective

accessible (comparative more accessible, superlative most accessible)

1. Easy of access or approach. [from 1640s]

   Synonym: approachable

2. (specifically) Built or designed as to be usable by people with disabilities.

3. (of a person) Easy to get along with.

   Synonyms: easy-going, friendly, welcoming

4. (followed by to) Open to the influence of.
5. Obtainable; to be got at.

   • The materials , however, which are at present accessible, are sufficient for the construction of a narrative not to be read without shame and loathing

6. (art, literature) Easily understood or appreciated. [from 1961]
   • 2015, Rose Bretécher, Pure, ?ISBN

     But something new was rippling through a million MySpace profiles. The sound was electro, and bass-laced synthetic dance pop would soon start streaming in from producers in Paris, dizzying the twenteens of Britain with its accessible, anthemic funk.

7. Capable of being used or seen.

Antonyms

• inaccessible

Derived terms

• accessibility
• accessibly

Translations

Further reading

• “accessible”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin accessibilis (“accessible”), from accessus, perfect passive participle of acc?d? (“approach”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?k.s??si.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ak.se?si.ble/

Adjective

accessible (masculine and feminine plural accessibles)

1. accessible

   Antonym: inaccessible

Derived terms

• accessibilitat
• inaccessible

Further reading

• “accessible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From Late Latin accessibilis (“accessible”), from accessus, perfect passive participle of acc?d? (“approach”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ak.s?.sibl/, /ak.se.sibl/
• Homophone: accessibles
• Hyphenation: ak?se?ssible

Adjective

accessible (plural accessibles)

1. (of a place, information, etc.) accessible, attainable, obtainable, available
2. (of a price) affordable
3. (of a person) approachable

Antonyms

• inaccessible

Derived terms

• accessibilité

Further reading

• “accessible” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English agreable, from Old French agreable; displaced native Old English cweme (“pleasing, agreeable”). Equivalent to agree +? -able.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /????i??bl/

Adjective

agreeable (comparative more agreeable, superlative most agreeable)

1. pleasant to the senses or the mind

   • the train of agreeable reveries.

2. (dated) Willing; ready to agree or consent.
   • 1529, Hugh Latimer, sermon in Cambridge

     These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a great sum of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town.

3. Agreeing or suitable; followed by to, or rarely by with.

   Synonyms: conformable, correspondent, concordant
4. In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; used adverbially

Synonyms

• (pleasing, pleasant): See Thesaurus:pleasant
• (willing): See Thesaurus:acquiescent
• (conforming): See Thesaurus:agreeable

Translations

Noun

agreeable (plural agreeables)

1. Something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.
   • 1855, Blackwood's magazine (volume 77, page 331)

     The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.

Further reading

• agreeable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• agreeable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.