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UK
/kəmpˈæniənəbəl/
]
ADJECTIVE
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suggestive of companionship
a companionable pet
How To Use companionable In A Sentence
- They are sharing, in a companionable silence somehow caught on camera, a moment of profound reflection and thought.
- Of the entire team, Elvira was the most companionable, genial and impressionable member, always bubbling with enthusiasm and high spirits.
- She herself meant eventually to marry, because one couldn't forever hang on to rich people; but she was going to wait till she found some one who combined the maximum of wealth with at least a minimum of companionableness. The Glimpses of the Moon
- They instantly fall into certain companionable roles: the smartest one lends an educated perspective on a topic, the most outrageous one cracks the kind of jokes she wouldn’t dare to if a man were around, the least intellectually secure one feels safe enough to ask the most rudimentary questions. The Uses of Enchantment
- There is something intensely companionable about playing with three others in a confined space; a companionableness which extends to giving opponents a fair sight of the ball without intervention of a referee.
- The only way out was via narrow and uncompanionable ‘companion-ladders.’
- She was the most companionable, genial and impressionable member of the team, always bubbling with enthusiasm and high spirits.
- Jim finds him to be ‘a most companionable fellow’.
- She realized she had lost the companionable Nick and was once again confronted with the strange, quiet, and somewhat frightening, angry Nick.
- He has a friend, the negro Jim, with the strength of a man, the companionableness of a boy, and the fidelity of a dog. Chapter 7. Mark Twain