PERSONABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does personable mean? 

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

1. (of persons) pleasant in appearance and personality

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERSONABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of persons) pleasant in appearance and personality

Similar:

attractive (pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm)

Derivation:

personableness (the complex of attributes that make a person socially attractive)

 Context examples 

Good evening, Apollo! she answered, smiling back at him, for he too looked unusually debonair, and the thought of entering the ballroom on the arm of such a personable man caused Amy to pity the four plain Misses Davis from the bottom of her heart.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)