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companionable

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[ UK /kəmpˈæni‍ənəbə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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
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