Definition of equable in English:

equable

adjective ˈɛkwəb(ə)lˈɛkwəb(ə)l

1Not easily disturbed or angered; calm and even-tempered.
he could look sterner than his equable temperament would suggest
Example sentencesExamples
- Martin's wide experience and equable disposition enabled him to mediate institutional rivalries in the history profession; he was greatly in demand as a supervisor of postgraduate research.
- As the others flounced and stamped their way through the jungle, Blackburn's equable temper won through.
- Hamon keeps his camera moving, shooting his equable subject from various angles, often jumping from his face to his hands and back in what seems to be an effort to inject movement into a visually static film.
- Their elegantly equable tone is in telling contrast to the remarks of others, which are similarly minded but testier in their articulation.
- Persians are the most mellow, sedentary and equable cats ever created.
- Her sound was more beautiful, her stage presence more serene, her personality more equable.
- She looked up into his face, but it was completely equable behind the mask, and Isis could not recognize who it was.
- Its equable temperament, unusual among terriers, results in large measure from the fact that it was originally a hunt terrier, expected to run peacefully with foxhounds.
- My temper, generally, is equable, as is my outlook.
- Further, it is to be hoped that a more equable frame of mind may help create the right kind of emotional and mental conditions for physical healing - in which ever way it is sought - to take place.
- Even so I seemed at every point of contact to be surrounded by abrasive people intent on disturbing my peace, my comfort, and my equable nature.
- He is every writing journalist's idea of a photographer: modest, equable, sober.
- For some reason, the editor has started to greet me with a growl, which can be a little on the disconcerting side for an equable chap like me.
- My spirits were equable but not equal to adventure so I pulled in to a lay-by to eat my lunch, listening to a radio programme on Rachmaninov's second piano concerto.
- His true marvel has been to maintain an equable temper in conditions which really ought to have quadrupled his 15-a-day smoking habit.
- Therein, perhaps, lies a clue: wherever it is, whatever he is, he would wear it with a certain equable tough-mindedness, a discreet cynicism tinged with self-deprecating irony.
- He was also extremely experienced, mentally robust, and equable.
- How extraordinary, I say, fascinated by the possibility of two people being either so equable, or so indifferent, that they can go 30 years without a cross word.
- An equable character, without airs, he displays a cool estimation of how seriously to take how others see him.
- While his discourse is extreme and accusatory, his demeanor is equable and deliberate.
Synonyms
even-tempered, calm, composed, collected, self-possessed, cool, {cool, calm, and collected}, relaxed, easy-going, at ease, as cool as a cucumber
nonchalant, insouciant, blithe, mellow, mild
serene, tranquil, placid, steady, stable, quiet, level-headed
imperturbable, unexcitable, unruffled, unperturbed, unflustered, undisturbed, unagitated, untroubled, well balanced
informal unflappable, unfazed, together, laid-back
rare equanimous
2Not varying or fluctuating greatly.
an equable climate
Example sentencesExamples
- The animals thrived during the ice age because the temperatures were more equable with cool summers and milder winters.
- They insisted that the climate we had experienced in the past century or so, mild and equable, was not the only sort of climate the planet knew.
- The rising seas and humid, equable conditions of the Mesozoic strongly reduced the availability of marine iron.
- The climate is generally mild, equable and mostly free from extremes of heat and cold, but very high temperatures occur in the northwest and very cold temperatures on the Southern Tablelands.
- Conditions indoors are regarded as satisfactory when the atmosphere can be maintained at an equable temperature and humidity.
- The equable climate, natural abundance of forest with plenty of herbs and medicinal plants and cool monsoon are best suited for rejuvenation.
- In any case, Late Mesozoic climates were so mild and equable that even the earliest Jurassic birds were probably fully capable of relatively precise behavioral thermoregulation.
- The climate is equable, with hot summers, pleasant springs and autumns and cool winters.
- Such rapid changes in temperature could throw a body still further out of balance; the prevailing assumption held that equable temperatures generated the best health.
- The coast has an equable Mediterranean climate well suited to agriculture.
- The coastal belt is warm and equable with moderate rainfall but conditions become progressively more arid and extreme further inland.
- Calm is emphasised by silence, and by the equable temperature.
- In the Torres Islands the predominant seasonal winds occur within a weather regime that is fairly equable throughout the year.
- The climate even at high latitudes during much of this period was warm and equable year-round, described by one investigator as ‘wall-to-wall Jamaica.’
- These fossils are from a time when the warm equable climate of the early Eocene was changing to the cooler more seasonal climates that we know today.
- During the Eocene, this region was located at much the same latitude it is today, though global climate was more equable.
- Their diverse flora and fauna were considered mainly a response to a stable and an equable climatic regime.
- These islands are mountainous, with rainforests that make the climate equable and supplies of fresh water plentiful.
- The more equable climate should ensure a good night for the Europeans.
- Many cycads may be grown outdoors in California and the southern United States, but they cannot seem to tolerate the less equable climate in other parts of the nation.
Synonyms
stable, constant, steady, even, uniform, regular, unvarying, consistent, unchanging, changeless
moderate, temperate, non-extreme, fair

Derivatives

equability

noun ɛkwəˈbɪlɪti

But it is offered through an ironizing equability of tone and a neatly decorous, unflappable ordering of the story, really a list of the elements that typify such an experience.
Example sentencesExamples
- This equability of temperature is a consequence of the strong influence of the warm ocean waters.

equably

adverb ˈɛkwəbli

You co-existed as equably as you could with parents who didn't understand you.
Example sentencesExamples
- All things considered, Becca copes equably with a complete change in lifestyle and home.
- For these two angry peoples to live equably side-by-side, they would somehow have to de-caricature one another - as well as themselves.
- ‘I understand only what I see,’ he replied equably.
- It's a book in which you don't forget that someone is talking to you-always equably and forthrightly, often humorously.

Origin

Mid 17th century (in the sense 'fair, equitable'): from Latin aequabilis, from aequare 'make equal' (see equate).

Definition of equable in US English:

equable

adjectiveˈekwəb(ə)lˈɛkwəb(ə)l

1(of a person) not easily disturbed or angered; calm and even-tempered.
Example sentencesExamples
- Martin's wide experience and equable disposition enabled him to mediate institutional rivalries in the history profession; he was greatly in demand as a supervisor of postgraduate research.
- As the others flounced and stamped their way through the jungle, Blackburn's equable temper won through.
- Therein, perhaps, lies a clue: wherever it is, whatever he is, he would wear it with a certain equable tough-mindedness, a discreet cynicism tinged with self-deprecating irony.
- My spirits were equable but not equal to adventure so I pulled in to a lay-by to eat my lunch, listening to a radio programme on Rachmaninov's second piano concerto.
- An equable character, without airs, he displays a cool estimation of how seriously to take how others see him.
- His true marvel has been to maintain an equable temper in conditions which really ought to have quadrupled his 15-a-day smoking habit.
- While his discourse is extreme and accusatory, his demeanor is equable and deliberate.
- My temper, generally, is equable, as is my outlook.
- Its equable temperament, unusual among terriers, results in large measure from the fact that it was originally a hunt terrier, expected to run peacefully with foxhounds.
- Hamon keeps his camera moving, shooting his equable subject from various angles, often jumping from his face to his hands and back in what seems to be an effort to inject movement into a visually static film.
- For some reason, the editor has started to greet me with a growl, which can be a little on the disconcerting side for an equable chap like me.
- Her sound was more beautiful, her stage presence more serene, her personality more equable.
- He is every writing journalist's idea of a photographer: modest, equable, sober.
- How extraordinary, I say, fascinated by the possibility of two people being either so equable, or so indifferent, that they can go 30 years without a cross word.
- She looked up into his face, but it was completely equable behind the mask, and Isis could not recognize who it was.
- Further, it is to be hoped that a more equable frame of mind may help create the right kind of emotional and mental conditions for physical healing - in which ever way it is sought - to take place.
- He was also extremely experienced, mentally robust, and equable.
- Their elegantly equable tone is in telling contrast to the remarks of others, which are similarly minded but testier in their articulation.
- Even so I seemed at every point of contact to be surrounded by abrasive people intent on disturbing my peace, my comfort, and my equable nature.
- Persians are the most mellow, sedentary and equable cats ever created.
Synonyms
even-tempered, calm, composed, collected, self-possessed, cool, cool, calm, and collected, relaxed, easy-going, at ease, as cool as a cucumber
1. 1.1 Not varying or fluctuating greatly.
  an equable climate
  Example sentencesExamples
  These fossils are from a time when the warm equable climate of the early Eocene was changing to the cooler more seasonal climates that we know today.
  Calm is emphasised by silence, and by the equable temperature.
  Many cycads may be grown outdoors in California and the southern United States, but they cannot seem to tolerate the less equable climate in other parts of the nation.
  The animals thrived during the ice age because the temperatures were more equable with cool summers and milder winters.
  The more equable climate should ensure a good night for the Europeans.
  The climate is equable, with hot summers, pleasant springs and autumns and cool winters.
  The climate even at high latitudes during much of this period was warm and equable year-round, described by one investigator as ‘wall-to-wall Jamaica.’
  The coastal belt is warm and equable with moderate rainfall but conditions become progressively more arid and extreme further inland.
  The equable climate, natural abundance of forest with plenty of herbs and medicinal plants and cool monsoon are best suited for rejuvenation.
  Conditions indoors are regarded as satisfactory when the atmosphere can be maintained at an equable temperature and humidity.
  They insisted that the climate we had experienced in the past century or so, mild and equable, was not the only sort of climate the planet knew.
  The rising seas and humid, equable conditions of the Mesozoic strongly reduced the availability of marine iron.
  Their diverse flora and fauna were considered mainly a response to a stable and an equable climatic regime.
  These islands are mountainous, with rainforests that make the climate equable and supplies of fresh water plentiful.
  In any case, Late Mesozoic climates were so mild and equable that even the earliest Jurassic birds were probably fully capable of relatively precise behavioral thermoregulation.
  The climate is generally mild, equable and mostly free from extremes of heat and cold, but very high temperatures occur in the northwest and very cold temperatures on the Southern Tablelands.
  In the Torres Islands the predominant seasonal winds occur within a weather regime that is fairly equable throughout the year.
  During the Eocene, this region was located at much the same latitude it is today, though global climate was more equable.
  Such rapid changes in temperature could throw a body still further out of balance; the prevailing assumption held that equable temperatures generated the best health.
  The coast has an equable Mediterranean climate well suited to agriculture.
  Synonyms
  stable, constant, steady, even, uniform, regular, unvarying, consistent, unchanging, changeless

Origin

Mid 17th century (in the sense ‘fair, equitable’): from Latin aequabilis, from aequare ‘make equal’ (see equate).

单词	equable
释义	Definition of equable in English: equable adjective ˈɛkwəb(ə)lˈɛkwəb(ə)l 1Not easily disturbed or angered; calm and even-tempered. he could look sterner than his equable temperament would suggest Example sentencesExamples Martin's wide experience and equable disposition enabled him to mediate institutional rivalries in the history profession; he was greatly in demand as a supervisor of postgraduate research. As the others flounced and stamped their way through the jungle, Blackburn's equable temper won through. Hamon keeps his camera moving, shooting his equable subject from various angles, often jumping from his face to his hands and back in what seems to be an effort to inject movement into a visually static film. Their elegantly equable tone is in telling contrast to the remarks of others, which are similarly minded but testier in their articulation. Persians are the most mellow, sedentary and equable cats ever created. Her sound was more beautiful, her stage presence more serene, her personality more equable. She looked up into his face, but it was completely equable behind the mask, and Isis could not recognize who it was. Its equable temperament, unusual among terriers, results in large measure from the fact that it was originally a hunt terrier, expected to run peacefully with foxhounds. My temper, generally, is equable, as is my outlook. Further, it is to be hoped that a more equable frame of mind may help create the right kind of emotional and mental conditions for physical healing - in which ever way it is sought - to take place. Even so I seemed at every point of contact to be surrounded by abrasive people intent on disturbing my peace, my comfort, and my equable nature. He is every writing journalist's idea of a photographer: modest, equable, sober. For some reason, the editor has started to greet me with a growl, which can be a little on the disconcerting side for an equable chap like me. My spirits were equable but not equal to adventure so I pulled in to a lay-by to eat my lunch, listening to a radio programme on Rachmaninov's second piano concerto. His true marvel has been to maintain an equable temper in conditions which really ought to have quadrupled his 15-a-day smoking habit. Therein, perhaps, lies a clue: wherever it is, whatever he is, he would wear it with a certain equable tough-mindedness, a discreet cynicism tinged with self-deprecating irony. He was also extremely experienced, mentally robust, and equable. How extraordinary, I say, fascinated by the possibility of two people being either so equable, or so indifferent, that they can go 30 years without a cross word. An equable character, without airs, he displays a cool estimation of how seriously to take how others see him. While his discourse is extreme and accusatory, his demeanor is equable and deliberate. Synonyms even-tempered, calm, composed, collected, self-possessed, cool, {cool, calm, and collected}, relaxed, easy-going, at ease, as cool as a cucumber nonchalant, insouciant, blithe, mellow, mild serene, tranquil, placid, steady, stable, quiet, level-headed imperturbable, unexcitable, unruffled, unperturbed, unflustered, undisturbed, unagitated, untroubled, well balanced informal unflappable, unfazed, together, laid-back rare equanimous 2Not varying or fluctuating greatly. an equable climate Example sentencesExamples The animals thrived during the ice age because the temperatures were more equable with cool summers and milder winters. They insisted that the climate we had experienced in the past century or so, mild and equable, was not the only sort of climate the planet knew. The rising seas and humid, equable conditions of the Mesozoic strongly reduced the availability of marine iron. The climate is generally mild, equable and mostly free from extremes of heat and cold, but very high temperatures occur in the northwest and very cold temperatures on the Southern Tablelands. Conditions indoors are regarded as satisfactory when the atmosphere can be maintained at an equable temperature and humidity. The equable climate, natural abundance of forest with plenty of herbs and medicinal plants and cool monsoon are best suited for rejuvenation. In any case, Late Mesozoic climates were so mild and equable that even the earliest Jurassic birds were probably fully capable of relatively precise behavioral thermoregulation. The climate is equable, with hot summers, pleasant springs and autumns and cool winters. Such rapid changes in temperature could throw a body still further out of balance; the prevailing assumption held that equable temperatures generated the best health. The coast has an equable Mediterranean climate well suited to agriculture. The coastal belt is warm and equable with moderate rainfall but conditions become progressively more arid and extreme further inland. Calm is emphasised by silence, and by the equable temperature. In the Torres Islands the predominant seasonal winds occur within a weather regime that is fairly equable throughout the year. The climate even at high latitudes during much of this period was warm and equable year-round, described by one investigator as ‘wall-to-wall Jamaica.’ These fossils are from a time when the warm equable climate of the early Eocene was changing to the cooler more seasonal climates that we know today. During the Eocene, this region was located at much the same latitude it is today, though global climate was more equable. Their diverse flora and fauna were considered mainly a response to a stable and an equable climatic regime. These islands are mountainous, with rainforests that make the climate equable and supplies of fresh water plentiful. The more equable climate should ensure a good night for the Europeans. Many cycads may be grown outdoors in California and the southern United States, but they cannot seem to tolerate the less equable climate in other parts of the nation. Synonyms stable, constant, steady, even, uniform, regular, unvarying, consistent, unchanging, changeless moderate, temperate, non-extreme, fair Derivatives equability noun ɛkwəˈbɪlɪti But it is offered through an ironizing equability of tone and a neatly decorous, unflappable ordering of the story, really a list of the elements that typify such an experience. Example sentencesExamples This equability of temperature is a consequence of the strong influence of the warm ocean waters. equably adverb ˈɛkwəbli You co-existed as equably as you could with parents who didn't understand you. Example sentencesExamples All things considered, Becca copes equably with a complete change in lifestyle and home. For these two angry peoples to live equably side-by-side, they would somehow have to de-caricature one another - as well as themselves. ‘I understand only what I see,’ he replied equably. It's a book in which you don't forget that someone is talking to you-always equably and forthrightly, often humorously. Origin Mid 17th century (in the sense 'fair, equitable'): from Latin aequabilis, from aequare 'make equal' (see equate). Definition of equable in US English: equable adjectiveˈekwəb(ə)lˈɛkwəb(ə)l 1(of a person) not easily disturbed or angered; calm and even-tempered. Example sentencesExamples Martin's wide experience and equable disposition enabled him to mediate institutional rivalries in the history profession; he was greatly in demand as a supervisor of postgraduate research. As the others flounced and stamped their way through the jungle, Blackburn's equable temper won through. Therein, perhaps, lies a clue: wherever it is, whatever he is, he would wear it with a certain equable tough-mindedness, a discreet cynicism tinged with self-deprecating irony. My spirits were equable but not equal to adventure so I pulled in to a lay-by to eat my lunch, listening to a radio programme on Rachmaninov's second piano concerto. An equable character, without airs, he displays a cool estimation of how seriously to take how others see him. His true marvel has been to maintain an equable temper in conditions which really ought to have quadrupled his 15-a-day smoking habit. While his discourse is extreme and accusatory, his demeanor is equable and deliberate. My temper, generally, is equable, as is my outlook. Its equable temperament, unusual among terriers, results in large measure from the fact that it was originally a hunt terrier, expected to run peacefully with foxhounds. Hamon keeps his camera moving, shooting his equable subject from various angles, often jumping from his face to his hands and back in what seems to be an effort to inject movement into a visually static film. For some reason, the editor has started to greet me with a growl, which can be a little on the disconcerting side for an equable chap like me. Her sound was more beautiful, her stage presence more serene, her personality more equable. He is every writing journalist's idea of a photographer: modest, equable, sober. How extraordinary, I say, fascinated by the possibility of two people being either so equable, or so indifferent, that they can go 30 years without a cross word. She looked up into his face, but it was completely equable behind the mask, and Isis could not recognize who it was. Further, it is to be hoped that a more equable frame of mind may help create the right kind of emotional and mental conditions for physical healing - in which ever way it is sought - to take place. He was also extremely experienced, mentally robust, and equable. Their elegantly equable tone is in telling contrast to the remarks of others, which are similarly minded but testier in their articulation. Even so I seemed at every point of contact to be surrounded by abrasive people intent on disturbing my peace, my comfort, and my equable nature. Persians are the most mellow, sedentary and equable cats ever created. Synonyms even-tempered, calm, composed, collected, self-possessed, cool, cool, calm, and collected, relaxed, easy-going, at ease, as cool as a cucumber 1.1 Not varying or fluctuating greatly. an equable climate Example sentencesExamples These fossils are from a time when the warm equable climate of the early Eocene was changing to the cooler more seasonal climates that we know today. Calm is emphasised by silence, and by the equable temperature. Many cycads may be grown outdoors in California and the southern United States, but they cannot seem to tolerate the less equable climate in other parts of the nation. The animals thrived during the ice age because the temperatures were more equable with cool summers and milder winters. The more equable climate should ensure a good night for the Europeans. The climate is equable, with hot summers, pleasant springs and autumns and cool winters. The climate even at high latitudes during much of this period was warm and equable year-round, described by one investigator as ‘wall-to-wall Jamaica.’ The coastal belt is warm and equable with moderate rainfall but conditions become progressively more arid and extreme further inland. The equable climate, natural abundance of forest with plenty of herbs and medicinal plants and cool monsoon are best suited for rejuvenation. Conditions indoors are regarded as satisfactory when the atmosphere can be maintained at an equable temperature and humidity. They insisted that the climate we had experienced in the past century or so, mild and equable, was not the only sort of climate the planet knew. The rising seas and humid, equable conditions of the Mesozoic strongly reduced the availability of marine iron. Their diverse flora and fauna were considered mainly a response to a stable and an equable climatic regime. These islands are mountainous, with rainforests that make the climate equable and supplies of fresh water plentiful. In any case, Late Mesozoic climates were so mild and equable that even the earliest Jurassic birds were probably fully capable of relatively precise behavioral thermoregulation. The climate is generally mild, equable and mostly free from extremes of heat and cold, but very high temperatures occur in the northwest and very cold temperatures on the Southern Tablelands. In the Torres Islands the predominant seasonal winds occur within a weather regime that is fairly equable throughout the year. During the Eocene, this region was located at much the same latitude it is today, though global climate was more equable. Such rapid changes in temperature could throw a body still further out of balance; the prevailing assumption held that equable temperatures generated the best health. The coast has an equable Mediterranean climate well suited to agriculture. Synonyms stable, constant, steady, even, uniform, regular, unvarying, consistent, unchanging, changeless Origin Mid 17th century (in the sense ‘fair, equitable’): from Latin aequabilis, from aequare ‘make equal’ (see equate).
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