MEANING
Remaining calm or consistent without sharp fluctuations.
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- equable temper
- equable climate
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His equable temper steadied the others.
An equable climate made the island attractive.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more equable; superlative most equable where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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