different between compliant vs agreeable

English

Etymology

comply +? -ant

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?m?pl???nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?m?pla??nt/
• Hyphenation: com?pli?ant
• Rhymes: -a??nt

Adjective

compliant (comparative more compliant, superlative most compliant)

1. Willing to comply; submissive; willing to do what someone wants.

   Synonyms: yielding, bending, pliant

2. Compatible with or following guidelines, specifications, rules, or laws.

Synonyms

• conformant; see also Thesaurus:conformant

Antonyms

• non-compliant, noncompliant

Derived terms

• compliantly

Related terms

• compliance

Translations

Anagrams

• coimplant, complaint

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.