From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Personable \Per"son*a*ble\ (p[~e]r"s[u^]n*[.a]*b'l), adjective
1. Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman.
Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind. --Spenser.
The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not personable. --E. Hall.
2. (Law) (a) Enabled to maintain pleas in court. --Cowell. (b) Having capacity to take anything granted.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: (of persons) pleasant in appearance and personality
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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