Word Meanings - SOCIABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Capable of being, or fit to be, united in one body or company; associable. They are sociable parts united into one body. Hooker. 2. Inclined to, or adapted for, society; ready to unite with others; fond of companions; social. Society

Additional info about word: SOCIABLE

1. Capable of being, or fit to be, united in one body or company; associable. They are sociable parts united into one body. Hooker. 2. Inclined to, or adapted for, society; ready to unite with others; fond of companions; social. Society is no comfort to one not sociable. Shak. What can be uneasy to this sociable creature than the dry, pensive retirements of solitude South. 3. Ready to converse; inclined to talk with others; not taciturn or reserved. 4. Affording opportunites for conversation; characterized by much conversation; as, a sociable party. 5. No longer hostile; friendly. Beau & Fl. Sociable bird, or Sociable weaver , a weaver bird which builds composite nests. See Republican, n., 3. . Syn. -- Social; companionable; conversible; friendly; familiar; communicative; accessible.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SOCIABLE)

• affable
• Courteous
• accessible
• condescending
• conversible
• gracious
• sociable
• gentle
• complaisant
• urbane
• polite
• easy
• approachable
• Amicable
• Friendly
• propitious
• favorable
• kind
• cordial
• neighborly
• Companionable
• Pleasant
• convertible
• friendly
• agreeable
• gregarious
• Well-inclined
• welldisposed
• amicable
• kindly
• social
• affectionate
• Gregarious
• Social
• consociative

Related words: (words related to SOCIABLE)

• URBANE
  Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant.
• SOCIALIST; SOCIALISTIC
  Pertaining to, or of the nature of, socialism.
• POLITENESS
  1. High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance. Evelyn. 2. The quality or state of being polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions. Syn. -- Courtesy; good breeding; refinement; urbanity;
• POLITE
  1. Smooth; polished. Rays of light falling on a polite surface. Sir I. Newton. 2. Smooth and refined in behavior or manners; well bred; courteous; complaisant; obliging; civil. He marries, bows at court, and grows polite. Pope. 3. Characterized
• KINDLY
  1. According to the kind or nature; natural. The kindly fruits of the earth. Book of Com. Prayer. An herd of bulls whom kindly rage doth sting. Spenser. Whatsoever as the Son of God he may do, it is kindly for Him as the Son of Man to save the
• SOCIALIZE
  1. To render social. 2. To subject to, or regulate by, socialism.
• SOCIALITY
  The quality of being social; socialness.
• FAVORABLE
  1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1. 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate;
• CORDIALNESS
  Cordiality. Cotgrave.
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• 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.
• PLEASANTNESS
  The state or quality of being pleasant.
• SOCIABLENESS
  The quality of being sociable.
• GENTLEWOMAN
  1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon. 2. A woman who attends a lady of high rank. Shak.
• AFFECTIONATED
  Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.
• APPROACHABLENESS
  The quality or state of being approachable; accessibility.
• AFFECTIONATE
  1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating
• 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.
• AMICABLENESS
  The quality of being amicable; amicability.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• ANTHROPOLITE
  A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it.
• DISGRACIOUS
  Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak.
• RECONVERTIBLE
  Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
• UNPOLITE
  Not polite; impolite; rude. -- Un`po*lite"ly, adv. -- Un`po*lite"ness, n.
• 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
• UNFAVORABLE
  Not favorable; not propitious; adverse; contrary; discouraging. -- Un*fa"vor*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*fa"vor*a*bly, adv.