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person of colour | person-to-person | persona | persona grata | persona non grata | personable | personableness | personage | personal | personal appeal | personal business

personable

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Adjective
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per=son=a=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

personablea. 
  •  Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman.  [1913 Webster]
    "Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind."  [1913 Webster]
    "The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not personable."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Enabled to maintain pleas in court.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

personable, adj. pleasing in appearance and behaviour.

Derivative
personableness n. personably adv.

THESAURUS

personable

Junoesque, agreeable, amply endowed, authoritative, becoming, bonny, braw, built, built for comfort, buxom, callipygian, callipygous, charismatic, charming, comely, consequential, curvaceous, curvy, effective, effectual, efficacious, enchanting, estimable, fair, goddess-like, good-looking, goodly, important, influential, likely, lovely to behold, magnetic, momentous, persuasive, pleasing, pneumatic, potent, powerful, presentable, prestigious, reputable, shapely, sightly, slender, stacked, statuesque, strong, suasive, substantial, telling, weighty, well-built, well-favored, well-formed, well-made, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked, winning

ROGET THESAURUS

personable

Beauty

N beauty, the beautiful, to kalon, le beau ideal, aesthetics, callaesthetics, pulchritude, form, elegance, grace, beauty unadorned, natural beauty, symmetry, comeliness, fairness, polish, gloss, good effect, good looks, belle tournure, trigness, bloom, brilliancy, radiance, splendor, gorgeousness, magnificence, sublimity, sublimification, concinnity, delicacy, refinement, charm, je ne sais quoi, style, Venus, Aphrodite, Hebe, the Graces, Peri, Houri, Cupid, Apollo, Hyperion, Adonis, Antionous, Narcissus, peacock, butterfly, garden, flower of, pink of, bijou, jewel, work of art, flower, flow'ret gay, wildflower, rose, lily, anemone, asphodel, buttercup, crane's bill, daffodil, tulip, tiger lily, day lily, begonia, marigold, geranium, lily of the valley, ranunculus, rhododendron, windflower, pleasurableness, beautifying, landscaping, landscape gardening, decoration, calisthenics, beauty, hunk (of men), beautiful, beauteous, handsome, gorgeous, pretty, lovely, graceful, elegant, prepossessing, attractive, delicate, dainty, refined, fair, personable, comely, seemly, bonny, good-looking, well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well- proportioned, proper, shapely, symmetrical, harmonious, sightly, fit to be seen, passable, not amiss, goodly, dapper, tight, jimp, gimp, janty, jaunty, trig, natty, quaint, trim, tidy, neat, spruce, smart, tricksy, bright, bright eyed, rosy cheeked, cherry cheeked, rosy, ruddy, blooming, in full bloom, brilliant, shining, beamy, beaming, sparkling, splendid, resplendent, dazzling, glowing, glossy, sleek, rich, superb, magnificent, grand, fine, sublime, showy, specious, artistic, artistical, aesthetic, picturesque, pictorial, fait a peindre, well-composed, well grouped, well varied, curious, enchanting becoming, ornamental, undeformed, undefaced, unspotted, spotless, auxilium non leve vultus habet, beauty born of murmuring sound, flowers preach to us if we will hear, gratior ac pulchro veniens in corpore virtus, none but the brave deserve the fair, thou who hast the fatal gift of beauty.


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