Search Result for "equable":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. not varying;
- Example: "an equable climate"
2. not easily irritated;
- Example: "an equable temper"
- Example: "not everyone shared his placid temperament"
- Example: "remained placid despite the repeated delays"
[syn: equable, even-tempered, good-tempered, placid]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Equable \E"qua*ble\ (?; 277), a. [L. aequabilis, fr. aequare to make level or equal, fr. aequus even, equal. See Equal.] 1. Equal and uniform; continuing the same at different times; -- said of motion, and the like; uniform in surface; smooth; as, an equable plain or globe. [1913 Webster] 2. Uniform in action or intensity; not variable or changing; -- said of the feelings or temper. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "equable": accordant, alike, automatic, balanced, calm, collected, composed, consistent, consonant, constant, continuous, cool, correspondent, dispassionate, easygoing, equal, equivalent, even, even-tempered, flat, homogeneous, immutable, imperturbable, invariable, level, level-headed, levelheaded, measured, mechanical, methodic, methodical, monolithic, of a piece, ordered, orderly, peaceful, persistent, placid, regular, reposeful, robotlike, same, serene, smooth, stabile, stable, steadfast, steady, systematic, tranquil, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, undeviating, undifferentiated, undiversified, unflappable, uniform, unruffled, unvaried, unvarying
