COMPANIONABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does companionable mean? 

• COMPANIONABLE (adjective)
  The adjective COMPANIONABLE has 1 sense:

1. suggestive of companionship

  Familiarity information: COMPANIONABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPANIONABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Suggestive of companionship

Context example:

a companionable pet

Similar:

sociable (inclined to or conducive to companionship with others)

Derivation:

companionability; companionableness (suitability to be a companion)

 Context examples 

Harkey, a long, lank Texan, was unusually friendly for one with a saturnine disposition, and, as long as his theory that gold grew was not challenged, was quite companionable.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Finding him so very friendly and companionable, it was then that I asked for the pen and ink and paper, to write to Peggotty.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To speak truth, I had not the least wish to go into company, for in company I was very rarely noticed; and if Bessie had but been kind and companionable, I should have deemed it a treat to spend the evenings quietly with her, instead of passing them under the formidable eye of Mrs. Reed, in a room full of ladies and gentlemen.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)