having or showing pleasant, good-natured personal qualities; affable

an amiable disposition.

friendly; sociable

an amiable greeting; an amiable gathering.

agreeable; willing to accept the wishes, decisions, or suggestions of another or others.

Obsolete . lovable or lovely.

adjective

crabby , disagreeable , gloomy , hateful , irritable , mean , quarrelsome , rude , surly , testy , unfriendly , unamiable

adjective

affable , amicable , attractive , benign , breezy , buddy-buddy * , charming , cheerful , clubby , complaisant , cool * , copacetic , cordial , cozy , delightful , downright neighborly , easy , engaging , friendly , genial , good-humored , good-natured , gracious , home cooking , kind , kindly , lenient , lovable , mellow , mild , obliging , palsy-walsy * , pleasant , pleasing , princely * , pussycat , responsive , right , righteous , sociable , sweet-tempered , swell * , tight * , warm , warmhearted , winningnotes:amicable implies being well disposed; amiable is acting well disposed and amiable is commonly applied only to people - though sometimes it is used for occasions , while amicable is not applied to people at all but to human interactions and their outcomes; amiable first meant \'kind\' or \'lovely , lovable\' and amicable first applied to things and meant \'pleasant , benign\' , agreeable , congenial , good-tempered , benignant , civil , civilized , courteous , gentle , hospitable , indulgent , loving , neighborly , polite , sweet , unctuous , winsome