Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Giving or affording pleasure or enjoyment; agreeable: a pleasant scene; pleasant sensations.
- adj. Pleasing in manner, behavior, or appearance.
- adj. Fair and comfortable: pleasant weather.
- adj. Merry; lively.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pleasing; delightful; agreeable; grateful to the mind or to the senses.
- Merry; lively; cheerful; gay.
- Jocular; witty; facetious.
- Synonyms Pleasant, Pleasing, Agreeable, Congenial, gratifying, acceptable, welcome. Pleasing is the strongest, and agreeable the weakest of the first four words. Pleasant may be, and generally is, applied to things in the concrete: as, pleasant weather. Pleasing applies generally to things not physical: as, a pleasant face; a pleasing aspect, variety. Pleasant suggests the effect produced, pleasing the power of producing it; hence we may say a pleasant or a pleasing variety. Pleasing must be objective, pleasant may be subjective : as, he was in a pleasant mood. Agreeable and congenial are used of social qualities and relations, but the latter goes deeper, expressing a natural suitableness, on the part of a person or thing, to the tastes, habits, temperament, or passing mood of the person concerned.
- n. A humorist; a droll; a jester; a buffoon.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pleasing; grateful to the mind or to the senses; agreeable.
- adj. Cheerful; enlivening; gay; sprightly; humorous; sportive.
- n. obsolete A wit; a humorist; a buffoon.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings
- adj. (of persons) having pleasing manners or behavior
Etymologies
- From Old French plaisant. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English plesaunt, from Old French plaisant, present participle of plaisir, to please, from Latin placēre; see plāk-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“She ran lightly up-stairs, and springing into her nurse's arms, exclaimed, "O mammy, mammy! what a pleasant, _pleasant_ day I have had!”
“To make thy riches pleasant] [W: nor bounty] I am inclined to believe, that neither man nor woman will have much difficulty to tell how _beauty makes riches pleasant_.”
“His eyes were a very, very light gray, his expression pleasant; despite his elegant, expensive-looking clothes, it was easy to imagine him on the deck of a ship, peering keenly into the distance.”
“The sheriff said something to the deputy, his expression pleasant, unhurried.”
“Around Pleasant Springs, Wisconsin not exactly what you call a pleasant sight.”
“He stared right back, trying to keep his expression pleasant.”
“It concerns us therefore to consider in time that he that tempts us will accuse us, and what he calls pleasant now he shall then say was nothing, and all the gains that now invite earthly souls and mean persons to vanity, was nothing but the seeds of folly, and the harvest in pain and sorrow and shame eternal.”
“Right there, facing us at the other side, is what I call a pleasant magazine -- it has lots of pictures, for see, it's pressed up to the window wide open, and it's called _The Joy-bell_ -- I'm a great deal more taken with that sound than with the sound of _The Downfall_.”
“And are these what you call pleasant things?" said he somewhat curiously.”
“Now I have a fancy to know what you call pleasant things, Linden.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pleasant’.
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Describing the Taste of Foods
yummy, zesty, piquant, pungent, sharp, spicy, poignant, delicious, ambrosial, appetizing, delectable, heavenly and 194 more...
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Describing People
eye, hair, mouth, nose, tooth, head, face, arm, hand, finger, lip, leg and 212 more...
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The sweetest thing.
A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down!
sugary, sweetness, fragrant, cloying, saccharine, honey, luscious, nectar, pudding, pastry, bittersweet, cupcake and 44 more...
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Happy
joyous, jovial, glad, merry, delightful, ecstatic, cheerful, euphoria, jolly, lively, upbeat, pleasant and 1 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-...
Words that have been used as baby names, including virtue names, nature names, place names, etc.
The title is an actual name given to a Puritan boy in the 17th century.faith, hope, grace, charity, chastity, prudence, patience, temperance, river, phoenix, stone, violet and 455 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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Rilakkuma's list
The Velvetine Ruffians
gamine, waif, ruffian, villain, rake, libertine, velvetine, luminary, nom de plume, street urchin, epicurean, eventide and 256 more...
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Words I like as names
It's exactly what it sounds like. And yeah, for real people as much as characters. Big surprise.
corbeau, alameda, hanabi, milk, promise, edelweiss, delphinium, jubilate, jubilance, jocoserious, arrow, angeles and 141 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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_mark's keywords ™
words that describe me or that i am focusing on.
( personal list )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/personas--2<...satirical, dark, enigmatic, androgyny, appreciative, opinionated, inquisitive, sensitive, nonchalant, acerbic, scientific, circumspective and 219 more...
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Tunie: Mark Rothko Song
A sad song by Dar Williams, from her album The Honesty Room.
The blue it speaks so full
It's like the beauty one can barely stand
Or too much things dropped in your ...pedestrians, kind, wash away, desperate, uptown, coffee, foot in the grave, folks, suicide, museum, powers, cost and 29 more...
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TT3 Lesson 35
aircraft, aboard, female, not at all, complex, male, would rather, could do with, chilly, suit yourself, smuggle, joke and 38 more...
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Poetrie: An Unusual Feast
Poetrie #1. Don't you hate it when your hosts have you over for dinner... literally?
The Walrus and the Carpenter
by Lewis Carroll
The sun was shining on the sea,
Sh...pleasant, streaming, trot, deaf, dismal, chiefly, chat, sealing-wax, conveniently, frothy, odd, oyster-bed and 6 more...
Tweets
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