Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
(of persons) pleasant in appearance and personality;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Personable \Per"son*a*ble\ (p[~e]r"s[u^]n*[.a]*b'l), a.
1. Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of
good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or
woman.
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Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind.
--Spenser.
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The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not
personable. --E. Hall.
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2. (Law)
(a) Enabled to maintain pleas in court. --Cowell.
(b) Having capacity to take anything granted.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
personable
adj 1: (of persons) pleasant in appearance and personality
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "personable":
Junoesque, agreeable, amply endowed, authoritative, becoming,
bonny, braw, built, built for comfort, buxom, callipygian,
callipygous, charismatic, charming, comely, consequential,
curvaceous, curvy, effective, effectual, efficacious, enchanting,
estimable, fair, goddess-like, good-looking, goodly, important,
influential, likely, lovely to behold, magnetic, momentous,
persuasive, pleasing, pneumatic, potent, powerful, presentable,
prestigious, reputable, shapely, sightly, slender, stacked,
statuesque, strong, suasive, substantial, telling, weighty,
well-built, well-favored, well-formed, well-made,
well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked, winning
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):
PERSONABLE. Having the capacities of a person; for example, the defendant
was judged personable to maintain this action. Old Nat. Brev. 142. This word
is obsolete.