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companionable

adj

Etymology

From companion + -able.

  1. derived from *gahlaibô✻
  2. derived from *galaibo✻
  3. derived from compaignon — “companion”
  4. inherited from companion
  5. suffixed as companionable — “companion + able”

Definitions

  1. Having the characteristics of a worthy companion

    Having the characteristics of a worthy companion; friendly and sociable.

    • She returned presently, bringing a smoking basin and a basket of work; and, having placed the former on the hob, drew in her seat, evidently pleased to find me so companionable.
    • I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
    • All the disagreeable circumstances of my prison had become, as it were, to me friendly and companionable; not one of them gave me annoyance.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA