Thesaurus: personable
Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman.
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Definitions
- a. Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman.
- a. Enabled to maintain pleas in court.
- a. Having capacity to take anything granted.
- adj. (of persons) pleasant in appearance and personality
- 1. Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman. Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind. Spenser. The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not personable. E. Hall. 2. (Law) (a) Enabled to maintain pleas in court. Cowell. (b) Having capacity to take anything granted.
- j:100 s. (of persons) pleasant in appearance and personality