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AFFABLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Diffusing warmth and friendliness
Example:
a genial host
Synonyms:
affable; amiable; cordial; genial
Classified under:
Similar:
friendly (characteristic of or befitting a friend)
Derivation:
affability; affableness (a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to))
Context examples:
She was always a very affable and free-spoken young lady, and very civil behaved.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
He looked like a young clergyman, in his white cravat, but he was very affable and good-humoured; and he showed me my place, and presented me to the masters, in a gentlemanly way that would have put me at my ease, if anything could.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Her father was affable; and when he entered into conversation with me after tea, he expressed in strong terms his approbation of what I had done in Morton school, and said he only feared, from what he saw and heard, I was too good for the place, and would soon quit it for one more suitable.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
