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equable

[ US /ˈɛkwəbəɫ/ ]
[ UK /ˈɛkəbə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not easily irritated
    not everyone shared his placid temperament
    an equable temper
    remained placid despite the repeated delays
  2. not varying
    an equable climate

How To Use equable In A Sentence

  • In the year 115 B.C., officers to "equalize distribution", chün shu, which may be termed equable marketing, were appointed. Discourses On Salt and Iron
  • Many cycads may be grown outdoors in California and the southern United States, but they cannot seem to tolerate the less equable climate in other parts of the nation.
  • As the others flounced and stamped their way through the jungle, Blackburn's equable temper won through.
  • There is no ebb and flow in his metre more than on the shores of the Adriatic, but wave follows wave with equable gainings and recessions, the one sliding back in fluent music to be mingled with and carried forward by the next. Among My Books Second Series
  • While his discourse is extreme and accusatory, his demeanor is equable and deliberate.
  • I didn't care over-weeningly for it for personal gratification; and in my philosophy I completed the circle, finding myself as equable with the lack of a ten-cent piece as I was with the squandering of scores of dollars in calling all men and hangers-on up to the bar to drink with me. Chapter 18
  • Even so I seemed at every point of contact to be surrounded by abrasive people intent on disturbing my peace, my comfort, and my equable nature.
  • Calm is emphasised by silence, and by the equable temperature.
  • His true marvel has been to maintain an equable temper in conditions which really ought to have quadrupled his 15-a-day smoking habit.
  • Because of a number of inequable systems and historical formation of the institutional barriers, migrant workers in cities can not enjoy all their rights.
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