agreable

Agreable is a historical or variant spelling of the English adjective agreeable. Today the standard form in English is agreeable, used to describe something pleasant, pleasing, or in accordance with what is agreed upon. Agreable appears chiefly in older documents and literary texts dating from Middle English and Early Modern English, and in contemporary writing it is regarded as archaic or nonstandard. The form also exists as a direct loan from French agréable, meaning pleasant or enjoyable, itself derived from the verb agréer (to please). The French word is cognate with the English form through shared Romance roots, though modern English spelling aligns with established conventions.

Usage and sense are otherwise the same: agreeable describes people, experiences, or things that are pleasant or agreeable in social or sensory terms. In dictionaries such as the Oxford English Dictionary, agreable is listed as a variant spelling of agreeable, with notes reflecting its obsolete or archaic status. The standard noun is agreeableness and the adverb is agreeably. In contemporary writing, encountering agreable typically signals a quotation from an older source or a typographical variant rather than current usage.

Pronunciation in texts that treat agreable as an English form is generally the same as agreeable: /əˈɡriːəbl/. In French, the corresponding adjective agréable is pronounced with a distinct French accent, reflecting its separate language origin.