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sociable

  • adjective
  • /ˈsoʊʃəbəl/

Tending to socialize or be social.

Example

“He's normally pretty quiet, but he gets much more sociable around women.”

Other meanings

  1. Offering opportunities for conversation; characterized by much conversation.

    “a sociable party”

  2. Capable of being, or fit to be, united in one body or company; associable.

Related words

  • antisociable
  • hypersociable
  • nonsociable
  • sociably
  • supersociable
  • sociability
  • sociable lapwing
  • sociable number
  • sociable plover
  • sociable weaver
  • sociable weaverbird
  • sociableness

Word history

From Latin "sociābilis".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “sociable” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.