Amiable vs. Warm — What's the Difference?

Amiable (1891–1915) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse that won the 1894 Epsom Oaks and 1,000 Guineas Stakes despite having severe stringhalt in both hind limbs. Amiable raced until she was three years old, retiring in 1895 to the Duke of Portland's Welbeck Stud.

Of or at a fairly or comfortably high temperature

Having or displaying a friendly and pleasant manner

Having or showing enthusiasm, affection, or kindness

Friendly and agreeable in disposition; good-natured and likable.

(of a colour) containing red, yellow, or orange tones

Cordial; sociable; congenial

(of a scent or trail) fresh; strong.

Friendly; kind; sweet; gracious

Make or become warm

Of a pleasant and likeable nature; kind-hearted; easy to like

A warm place or area

Lovable; lovely; pleasing.

Short for British warm

Friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious; as, an amiable temper or mood; amiable ideas.

Somewhat hotter than temperate; having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat; moderately hot

Possessing sweetness of disposition; having sweetness of temper, kind-heartedness, etc., which causes one to be liked; as, an amiable woman.

Having the natural heat of living beings

Done out of love.

Preserving or imparting heat

Disposed to please;

Having or causing a sensation of unusually high body heat, as from exercise or hard work; overheated.

Diffusing warmth and friendliness;

Marked by enthusiasm; ardent

Characterized by liveliness, excitement, or disagreement; heated

Marked by or revealing friendliness or sincerity; cordial

Loving; passionate

Excitable, impetuous, or quick to be aroused

Predominantly red or yellow in tone

Recently made; fresh

Close to discovering, guessing, or finding something, as in certain games.

(Informal) Uncomfortable because of danger or annoyance

To raise slightly in temperature; make warm

To make zealous or ardent; enliven.

To fill with pleasant emotions

To become warm

To become ardent, enthusiastic, or animated

To become kindly disposed or friendly

A warming or heating.

Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.

Caring and friendly, of relations to another person.

Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum.

Close, often used in the context of a game in which "warm" and "cold" are used to indicate nearness to the goal.

Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.

(figurative) Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness

(archaic) Ardent, zealous.

Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; prosperous.

(archaic) Requiring arduous effort.

(transitive) To make or keep warm.

(intransitive) To become warm, to heat up.

Sometimes in the form warm up To favour increasingly.

(intransitive) To become ardent or animated.

(transitive) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.

To beat or spank.

To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users.

(colloquial) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.

Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk.

Having a sensation of heat, esp. of gentle heat; glowing.

Subject to heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no cold weather; as, the warm climate of Egypt.

Fig.: Not cool, indifferent, lukewarm, or the like, in spirit or temper; zealous; ardent; fervent; excited; sprightly; irritable; excitable.

Violent; vehement; furious; excited; passionate; as, a warm contest; a warm debate.

Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; forehanded; rich.

In children's games, being near the object sought for; hence, being close to the discovery of some person, thing, or fact concealed.

Having yellow or red for a basis, or in their composition; - said of colors, and opposed to cold which is of blue and its compounds.

To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; to render warm; to supply or furnish heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment.

To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven.

To become warm, or moderately heated; as, the earth soon warms in a clear day summer.

To become ardent or animated; as, the speake warms as he proceeds.

The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a warming; a heating.

Get warm or warmer;

Make warm or warmer;

Having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat;

Psychologically warm; friendly and responsive;

(color) inducing the impression of warmth; used especially of reds and oranges and yellows;

Having or displaying warmth or affection;

Freshly made or left;

Easily aroused or excited;

Characterized by strong enthusiasm;

Characterized by liveliness or excitement or disagreement;

Uncomfortable because of possible danger or trouble;

Of a seeker; near to the object sought;

In a warm manner;