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PLEASURABLE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

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Meaning:

Affording satisfaction or pleasure

Example:

good printing makes a book more pleasurable to read

Synonyms:

enjoyable; gratifying; pleasurable

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

pleasant (affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings)

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 Context examples: 

I think those day visions were not dark: there was a pleasurable illumination in your eye occasionally, a soft excitement in your aspect, which told of no bitter, bilious, hypochondriac brooding: your look revealed rather the sweet musings of youth when its spirit follows on willing wings the flight of Hope up and on to an ideal heaven.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Which is a very poor way of saying that it is good for oneself to be strong, and evil for oneself to be weak—or better yet, it is pleasurable to be strong, because of the profits; painful to be weak, because of the penalties.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)