Word Meanings - COMPANIONABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Fitted to be a companion; fit for good fellowship; agreeable; sociable. "Each companionable guest." Mallett. "Companionable wit." Clarendon. -- Com*pan"ion*a*ble*ness, n. -- Com*pan"ion*a*bly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMPANIONABLE)

• Sociable
• Companionable
• genial
• social
• convertible
• friendly
• accessible
• gregarious

Related words: (words related to COMPANIONABLE)

• SOCIALIST; SOCIALISTIC
  Pertaining to, or of the nature of, socialism.
• GENIALLY
  1. By genius or nature; naturally. Some men are genially disposed to some opinions. Glanvill. 2. Gayly; cheerfully. Johnson.
• SOCIABLE
  1. A gathering of people for social purposes; an informal party or reception; as, a church sociable. 2. A carriage having two double seats facing each other, and a box for the driver. Miss Edgeworth.
• SOCIALIZE
  1. To render social. 2. To subject to, or regulate by, socialism.
• SOCIALITY
  The quality of being social; socialness.
• GENIALNESS
  The quality of being genial.
• GENIALITY
  The quality of being genial; sympathetic cheerfulness; warmth of disposition and manners.
• FRIENDLY
  1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable. 2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay. 3.
• SOCIABLENESS
  The quality of being sociable.
• SOCIAL
  Naturally growing in groups or masses; -- said of many individual plants of the same species. Living in communities consisting of males, females, and neuters, as do ants and most bees. Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from
• COMPANIONABLE
  Fitted to be a companion; fit for good fellowship; agreeable; sociable. "Each companionable guest." Mallett. "Companionable wit." Clarendon. -- Com*pan"ion*a*ble*ness, n. -- Com*pan"ion*a*bly, adv.
• CONVERTIBLE
  1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. 2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.
• SOCIALLY
  In a social manner; sociably.
• SOCIALNESS
  The quality or state of being social.
• SOCIALISM
  A theory or system of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor. In popular usage, the term is often employed to indicate any lawless, revolutionary
• CONVERTIBLENESS
  The state of being convertible; convertibility.
• ACCESSIBLE
  1. Easy of access or approach; approachable; as, an accessible town or mountain, an accessible person. 2. Open to the influence of; -- with to. "Minds accessible to reason." Macaulay. 3. Obtainable; to be got at. The best information
• GENIAL
  1. Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive. "The genial bed." Milton. Creator Venus, genial power of love. Dryden. 2. Contributing to, and sympathizing with, the enjoyment of life;
• GREGARIOUS
  Habitually living or moving in flocks or herds; tending to flock or herd together; not habitually solitary or living alone. Burke. No birds of prey are gregarious. Ray. -- Gre*ga"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Gre-ga'ri-ous-ness, n.
• SOCIALIST
  One who advocates or practices the doctrines of socialism.
• RECONVERTIBLE
  Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
• PRIMOGENIAL
  First born, made, or generated; original; primary; elemental; as, primogenial light. Glanvill.
• INCONVERTIBLE
  Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh.
• STATE SOCIALISM
  A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
• CONGENIALLY
  In a congenial manner; as, congenially married or employed.
• DISSOCIAL
  Unfriendly to society; contracted; selfish; as, dissocial feelings.
• CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM
  Any theory or system that aims to combine the teachings of Christ with the teachings of socialism in their applications to life; Christianized socialism; esp., the principles of this nature advocated by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others
• INCONVERTIBLENESS
  Inconvertibility.
• INTERCONVERTIBLE
  Convertible the one into the other; as, coin and bank notes are interconvertible.
• UNFRIENDLY
  1. Not friendly; not kind or benevolent; hostile; as, an unfriendly neighbor. 2. Not favorable; not adapted to promote or support any object; as, weather unfriendly to health. -- Un*friend"li*ness, n.