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12 words match “COMPANIONABLE”

COMPANIONABLE a.
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.
ASSOCIABLE a.
Sociable; companionable. [Obs.]
COMPANABLE a.
Companionable; sociable. [Obs.] Chaucer.
COMPANIABLE a.
Companionable; sociable. [Obs.] Bacon.
FELLOWLIKE a.
Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. [Obs.] Udall.
FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP n.
companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.
GOOD a.
aluable consideration, or one which will sustain a contract. -- Good fellow, a person of companionable qualities. [Familiar] -- Good folk, or Good people, fairies; brownies; pixies, etc. [Colloq. Eng. & Scot.] -- Good for nothing. (a) Of no value; useless; worthless. (b) Used substantively, an idle, worthless person.…
GOOD-FELLOWSHIP n.
Agreeable companionship; companionableness.
HOMILETIC; HOMILETICAL a.
Of or pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; affable; conversable; companionable. [R.] His virtues active, chiefly, and homiletical, not those lazy, sullen ones of the cloister. Atterbury.
INSOCIABLE a.
Not sociable or companionable; disinclined to social intercourse or conversation; unsociable; taciturn. This austere insociable life. Shak.
REVELOUS a.
Fond of festivity; given to merrymaking or reveling. [Obs.] Companionable and revelous was she. Chaucer.
SOCIAL a.
Ready or disposed to mix in friendly converse; companionable; sociable; as, a social person.