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PLEASANT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of persons) having pleasing manners or behavior
Example:
I didn't enjoy it and probably wasn't a pleasant person to be around
Classified under:
Similar:
nice (pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance)
Derivation:
pleasantness (the feeling caused by agreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling)
please (give satisfaction)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings
Example:
pleasant sensations
Classified under:
Similar:
beautiful ((of weather) highly enjoyable)
dulcet (extremely pleasant in a gentle way)
enjoyable; gratifying; pleasurable (affording satisfaction or pleasure)
grateful (affording comfort or pleasure)
idyllic (suggestive of an idyll; charmingly simple and serene)
pleasing (pleasant or agreeable to the senses)
Also:
aesthetic; aesthetical; esthetic; esthetical (concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste)
agreeable (conforming to your own liking or feelings or nature)
good-natured (having an easygoing and cheerful disposition)
nice (pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance)
pleasing (giving pleasure and satisfaction)
Attribute:
pleasantness; sweetness (the quality of giving pleasure)
Antonym:
unpleasant (offensive or disagreeable; causing discomfort or unhappiness)
Derivation:
pleasance (a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience)
pleasantness (the quality of giving pleasure)
please (give pleasure to or be pleasing to)
Context examples:
I hardly know, sir; I have little experience of them: they are generally thought pleasant things.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
They tell me, bowmen, said he, that ye have grown so fond of ease and plunder and high living that ye are not to be moved from this pleasant country.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Poole had, indeed, no very pleasant news to communicate.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He was a dark, sallow, clean-shaven, silent person, but he had polite manners and a pleasant smile.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Now I shall learn something pleasant, I am sure; for it will tell me the other side of a true love episode of which I know one side already....
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
As the weather was fine, they had a pleasant walk of about half a mile across the park.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Have regular hours for work and play, make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The pleasant old lady had appeared in the doorway.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“We will not open the door,” cried they, “you are not our mother. She has a soft, pleasant voice, but your voice is rough; you are the wolf!”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Pleasant smelling compound found in many plants and released on wilting.
(Coumarin, NCI Thesaurus)
