sociable

1. 1.

   a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity

   Synonymssocialmixer

   Broaderparty

Other forms of sociable

plural

sociables·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sociable

What does sociable mean?

sociable means "inclined to or conducive to companionship with others". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sociable?

sociable has 3 syllables: so-cia-ble. The stress falls on "so". In IPA it is /ˈsoʊʃəbəl/.

What is another word for sociable?

Close synonyms include social, mixer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of sociable?

The recorded antonyms are unsociable.

Is sociable a common word?

sociable is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.