different between agreeable vs agreement
agreeable
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)
- pleasant to the senses or the mind
- the train of agreeable reveries.
- (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.
- 1529, Hugh Latimer, sermon in Cambridge
- Agreeing or suitable; followed by to, or rarely by with.
- Synonyms: conformable, correspondent, concordant
- 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)
- 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.
- 1855, Blackwood's magazine (volume 77, page 331)
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.
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agreement
English
Etymology
From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement.
Morphologically agree +? -ment
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????i?m?nt/
Noun
agreement (countable and uncountable, plural agreements)
- (countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
- (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
- (uncountable, law) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
- (uncountable, linguistics, grammar) Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.
- Having clarified what we mean by ‘Person? and ‘Number?, we can now return to our earlier observation that a finite I is inflected not only for Tense, but also for Agreement. More particularly, I inflects for Person and Number, and must ‘agree? with its Subject, in the sense that the Person/Number features of I must match those of the Subject.
- (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) An agreeable quality.
- 1650, John Donne, "Elegie XVII":
- Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...].
- 1650, John Donne, "Elegie XVII":
Synonyms
- (An understanding to follow a course of conduct): concord, convention, covenant, meeting of the minds, pact, treaty; See also Thesaurus:pact
- (A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion): congeniality, concurrence, harmony, accord; See also Thesaurus:agreement
- (A legally binding contract): settlement
- (linguistics, grammar): concord, concordance
- (An agreeable quality): amenity, pleasantness, niceness
Coordinate terms
- (linguistics, grammar): rection
Hyponyms
- (An understanding to follow a course of conduct): conspiracy
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- consent, approval
See also
- consensus
- agreement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English agreement.
Noun
agreement m (invariable)
- agreement (pact, accord)
Anagrams
- magnerete
- mangerete
Middle English
Noun
agreement
- Alternative form of agrement
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- what was the great compromise agreement about
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