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amicable

/am-i-kuh-buhl/US // ˈæm ɪ kə bəl //UK // (ˈæmɪkəbəl) //

友好的,友好,亲切,友善的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by or showing goodwill; friendly; peaceable: an amicable settlement.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.friendly, especially regarding an agreement

Examples

  • The production pitted Adams’s patriots against conservatives in the Congress who hoped to rekindle amicable relations with the British and refused to declare independence without explicit protections for slavery.

  • Hicks said Carroll and his wife Patti agreed to an amicable separation and, according to other friends, the two divorced around 1971 but remained lifelong friends.

  • Jong Hyun Kim, chief executive of LG Energy Solution, and Jun Kim, chief executive of SK Innovation, said in a joint statement that they would “compete in an amicable way.”

  • Ours was an amicable split, borne out of practical necessity.

  • “It was a very peaceful, amicable, lovely divorce, where my siblings and I had a great, fun, healthy childhood,” he says.

  • The Microsoft-Ballmer split may be the rare case in which an amicable divorce leaves both parties richer.

  • Another, more terrible failure is that the family agreed to the “amicable solution” offered by their friends.

  • This dispute did not make for an amicable parting, according to investigators.

  • There will be an amicable settlement; and my word will be a knot in the chain of satisfactory evidence they will elicit.

  • Early in May amicable relations between the courts of England and Naples commenced.

  • In 1790 two societies were established in that city for the private and amicable discussion of miscellaneous questions.

  • With the rest of the Whitford society, the bride did not enter into intimate, or even amicable, relations.

  • You have memories and associations in common that the new-comers know nothing about, and quasi-amicable rearrangements are made.