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From Middle English amicable (“agreeable; pleasant”), from Late Latin amīcābilis (“friendly”). Doublet of amiable.

• IPA(key): /ˈæ.mɪ.kə.bəl/

amicable (comparative more amicable, superlative most amicable)

1. Showing friendliness or goodwill.
   They hoped to reach an amicable agreement.
   He was an amicable fellow with an easy smile.

Amicable is particularly used of relationships or agreements (especially legal proceedings, such as divorce), with meaning ranging from simply “not quarrelsome, mutually consenting” to “quite friendly”. By contrast, the similar term amiable is especially used to mean “pleasant, lovable”, such as an “amiable smile”.[1]

• inimical

• amicability

• amicableness

• amicable number

• amicable suit

• amicably

• inamicable

• unamicable

• amiable

• amity

showing friendliness or goodwill

• Bulgarian: дружелюбен (bg) (druželjuben), приятелски (bg) (prijatelski)
• Catalan: amigable (ca)
• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 友好 (zh) (yǒuhǎo), 藹然 / 蔼然 (zh) (ǎirán), (formal) 友善 (zh) (yǒushàn)
• Czech: přátelský (cs)
• Danish: venskabelig, fredelig (da)
• Dutch: goedhartig (nl), vriendelijk (nl)
• Finnish: sovinnollinen (fi), sopuisa (fi), ystävällinen (fi)
• French: amiable (fr) (agreement), amical (fr) (person)
• Galician: amigábel (gl)
• German: einvernehmlich (de) (agreement), freundlich (de) (person), freundschaftlich (de) (agreement, discussion, gesture), gütlich (de) (settlement), liebenswürdig (de) (person)
• Greek:
  Ancient Greek: εὔκολος (eúkolos)
• Hebrew: מאיר פנים
• Indonesian: ramah tamah (id)
• Latin: amīcus (la)
• Malay: sosial (ms)
• Polish: przyjazny (pl)
• Portuguese: amigável (pt)
• Romanian: amabil (ro)
• Russian: дружелю́бный (ru) (druželjúbnyj)
• Spanish: amigable (es), amistoso (es), cordial (es)
• Tagalog: mapayapa

1. ^ The Penguin Wordmaster Dictionary, Martin Manser and Nigel Turton, eds., 1987, cited in “Wordmaster: amiable, amicable”, all songs lead back t' the sea, 23 Oct 2009, by NTWrong

• “amicable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “amicable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “amicable”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.