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Approachable   /əprˈoʊtʃəbəl/   Listen
Approachable

adjective
1.
Capable of being read with comprehension.  Synonym: accessible.  "The tales seem more approachable than his more difficult novels"
2.
Easy to meet or converse or do business with.
3.
Easily approached.  Synonym: reachable.






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"Approachable" Quotes from Famous Books



... but to take the money back, much as he disliked it. Until he did so, Mr Frampton was too fidgety to be approachable on ...
— A Dog with a Bad Name • Talbot Baines Reed

... hereafter for very shame. John Calvin was unquestionably subject to the infirmities of our human nature; so was John Milton; but the inherent and indefectable greatness of these two men was such, that they dwell apart like stars, in glory scarcely approachable by mortal virtue or intelligence. John Calvin and John Milton were in an extraordinary degree the authors of modern institutions of liberty, and it would be difficult to decide which has most merit of this praise. The late Albert Gallatin was wont to say ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 • Various

... young enthusiasm had to acknowledge was in error. I fancied that the animals in such a spot as I have described, unwise to the ways of man, having had no experience to teach them fear and caution, would be gentle and trusting, and approachable. I was doomed to disappointment. I found that no matter how remote the region, how primeval its forests or how Eden-new its streams, its beasts were ...
— A Mountain Boyhood • Joe Mills

... assurance of Mayor Packard's approval of any attempt, however far-fetched or unpromising, which held out the least possibility of relieving Mrs. Packard from her superstitious fears and restoring the peace and happiness of the household. If only Mr. Searles should prove to be an approachable man! ...
— The Mayor's Wife • Anna Katharine Green

... Graben. The shops were smaller. The windows exhibited cheaper goods. There was a sort of family atmosphere about many of them; the head of the establishment in the doorway, the wife at the cashier's desk, daughters, cousins, nieces behind the wooden counters. The shopkeepers were approachable, instead of familiar. Harmony met no rebuffs, was respectfully greeted and cheerfully listened to. In many cases the application ended in a general consultation, shopkeeper, wife, daughters, nieces, slim clerks with tiny mustaches. She got addresses, followed ...
— The Street of Seven Stars • Mary Roberts Rinehart


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