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personable.

Of a person: having a pleasing appearance; attractive; handsome.

10 characters4 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈpɜːsn̩əbl//ˈpɜːs(ə)nəbəl//ˈpɜɹs(ə)nəb(ə)l/General-American
  1. Of a person: having a pleasing appearance; attractive; handsome.

  2. Of a person: having a pleasant manner; amiable, friendly.

  3. Synonym of personal (“done in person, without an intermediary”).

    obsolete · rare
  4. Being a legal person and thus able to maintain a plea in court, or to hold some property or right.

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

From Late Middle English personable, personabil (“having a pleasing appearance, handsome”), and then from both of the following: * For sense 1 (“having a pleasing appearance”) and sense 2 (“having a pleasant manner”) (these senses are not found in Old French or Medieval Latin), probably from person, personne, persoun (“individual, person”) + -āble (suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’ forming adjectives). * For sense 3.1 (“synonym of personal”) and sense 3.2 (“being a legal person”), from Middle French personable and Old French personable, and from their etymon Medieval Latin personābilis (“personal”), possibly from Medieval Latin persōna (“person”) + Latin -ābilis (suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’). By surface analysis, person + -able (suffix meaning ‘relevant or suitable to’).

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