personable
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- (of persons) pleasant in appearance and personality
Adj
- Of a person: having a pleasing appearance; attractive; handsome.
- Of a person: having a pleasant manner; amiable, friendly.
- Synonym of personal (“done in person, without an intermediary”).
- Being a legal person and thus able to maintain a plea in court, or to hold some property or right.
Origin / Etymology
From Late Middle English personable, personabil (“having a pleasing appearance, handsome”), and then from both of the following:
* For sense 1 (“having a pleasing appearance”) and sense 2 (“having a pleasant manner”) (these senses are not found in Old French or Medieval Latin), probably from person, personne, persoun (“individual, person”) + -āble (suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’ forming adjectives).
* For sense 3.1 (“synonym of personal”) and sense 3.2 (“being a legal person”), from Middle French personable and Old French personable, and from their etymon Medieval Latin personābilis (“personal”), possibly from Medieval Latin persōna (“person”) + Latin -ābilis (suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’).
By surface analysis, person + -able (suffix meaning ‘relevant or suitable to’).
Synonyms
affable, affectionate, agreeable, amiable, amicable, attractive, beauteous, beautifool, beautiful, beautimous, bona vardering, bonnie, breathtaking, captivating, chummy, comely, companionable, congenial, cordial, cute, esculent, exquisite, facile, fair, familiar, fetching, fine-looking, friendly, genial, good enough to eat, good-looking, handsome, hospitable, knockout, likeable, lovely, lovesome, lustrious, matey, nice, nice-looking, personable, personal, physically attractive, prettiful, pretty, pulchritudinous, shapely, sheen, sightly, simpatico, stunning, swanlike, welcoming, well-favoured, winsome
Antonyms
attractive, beautiful, comely, cooperative, friendly, good-looking, handsome, helpful, nice, pretty, unattractive, unpersonable
Scrabble Score: 14
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