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affable

Pronunciation: /ˈæf.ə.bəl/

The English word “affable” has 2 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; friendly, courteous, sociable.
  2. Mild; benign.

Etymology

Borrowed from French affable, from Latin affābilis, from affor (“to address”), from ad + for (“to speak, to talk”). See fable. By surface analysis, af- + fable.

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