different between agreeable vs irresistible

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.

English

Alternative forms

• irresistable (dated)

Etymology

ir- +? resistible

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?????z?st?bl?/

Adjective

irresistible (comparative more irresistible, superlative most irresistible)

1. Impossile to resist.
2. Compellingly attractive.

Derived terms

• irresistibility
• irresistibleness
• irresistibly

Translations

Asturian

Adjective

irresistible (epicene, plural irresistibles)

1. irresistible

Antonyms

• resistible

Catalan

Etymology

ir- +? resistible

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /i.r?.zis?ti.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /i.re.zis?ti.ble/

Adjective

irresistible (masculine and feminine plural irresistibles)

1. irresistible

Antonyms

• resistible

Derived terms

• irresistiblement

Galician

Alternative forms

• irresistíbel

Adjective

irresistible m or f (plural irresistibles)

1. irresistible

Antonyms

• resistible, resistíbel

Derived terms

• irresistiblemente

Spanish

Etymology

ir- +? resistible

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iresis?tible/, [i.re.sis?t?i.??le]

Adjective

irresistible (plural irresistibles)

1. irresistible

   Antonym: resistible

Derived terms

• irresistiblemente

Further reading

• “irresistible” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.