COMPANIONABLE Synonyms: 131 Similar and Opposite Words

companionable

adjective

kəm-ˈpan-yə-nə-bəl

as in warm

having or showing kindly feeling and sincere interest a companionable pat on the back let me know that my shipmates were now my friends

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as in outgoing

likely to seek or enjoy the company of others a good club for companionable enthusiasts of the great outdoors

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Recent Examples of companionable Mike, played by a rangy, companionable Hugh Jackman, is a striving singer in Milwaukee who has battled the bottle, cannot consistently pay his mortgage, and keeps himself going by appearing at the state fair dressed up to look (and sound) like Don Ho. —

Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2026 At her feet is a fantastical winged feline creature, its presence both companionable and uncanny. —

Sally Jane Brown, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025 Not just the comfortable, companionable silences but the ones that carry weight. —

Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025 Winfrey and Goldberg, ages 71 and 69, were presenting themselves as political avatars rather than the companionable media figures of their first renown. —

Armond White, National Review, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for companionable

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Adjective

A day later, both sides were outside during breaks enjoying an unseasonably warm mid-March day in Manhattan.

— Doug Feinberg, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026
Shawkat, with her warm, amused eyes and her mop of curls, is a perfect carrier for Mae’s air of abjection, flopping around her bed like a horny, gloomy Raggedy Ann.

— Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2026