pleasant
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
pleasant
adj 1: affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or
likings; "we had a pleasant evening together"; "a
pleasant scene"; "pleasant sensations" [ant:
{unpleasant}]
2: (of persons) having pleasing manners or behavior; "I didn't
enjoy it and probably wasn't a pleasant person to be around"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pleasant \Pleas"ant\, a. [F. plaisant. See {Please}.]
1. Pleasing; grateful to the mind or to the senses;
agreeable; as, a pleasant journey; pleasant weather.
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Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to
dwell together in unity! --Ps. cxxxiii.
1.
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2. Cheerful; enlivening; gay; sprightly; humorous; sportive;
as, pleasant company; a pleasant fellow.
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From grave to light, from pleasant to serve.
--Dryden.
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Syn: Pleasing; gratifying; agreeable; cheerful; good-humored;
enlivening; gay; lively; merry; sportive; humorous;
jocose; amusing; witty.
Usage: {Pleasant}, {Pleasing}, {Agreeable}. Agreeable is
applied to that which agrees with, or is in harmony
with, one's tastes, character, etc. Pleasant and
pleasing denote a stronger degree of the agreeable.
Pleasant refers rather to the state or condition;
pleasing, to the act or effect. Where they are applied
to the same object, pleasing is more energetic than
pleasant; as, she is always pleasant and always
pleasing. The distinction, however, is not radical and
not rightly observed.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
206 Moby Thesaurus words for "pleasant":
achingly sweet, advantageous, affable, agreeable,
agreeable-sounding, alluring, amiable, amicable, appealing,
approachable, appropriate, ariose, arioso, attractive, auspicious,
balmy, beaming, beneficial, benevolent, blissful, blithe,
blithesome, bon, bonny, braw, bright, bright and fair,
bright and sunny, brotherly, bueno, canorous, cantabile, capital,
catchy, charming, cheerful, cheering, cheery, clear, cloudless,
cogent, commendable, companionable, compatible, complaisant,
congenial, convivial, cordial, courteous, cultivated, cultured,
debonair, delectable, delicious, delightful, desirable, dulcet,
elated, elegant, en rapport, engaging, enjoyable, estimable,
eupeptic, euphonic, euphonious, euphonous, euphoric, exalted,
excellent, exhilarated, expedient, fair, fair and pleasant, famous,
favorable, felicific, felicitous, fine, fine-toned, fitting,
flushed, fraternal, friendlike, friendly, genial, genteel, glad,
gladsome, glowing, golden, golden-tongued, golden-voiced, good,
goodly, gracious, grand, grateful, gratifying, gregarious, happy,
harmonious, healthy, heart-warming, helpful, high, honeyed,
hopeful, hospitable, in good spirits, in high spirits, inviting,
irrepressible, joyful, joyous, kind, laudable, laughing, likable,
likeable, lovely, melic, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellisonant,
mellow, melodic, melodious, music-flowing, music-like, musical,
neighborlike, neighborly, nice, noble, of good cheer, open,
optimistic, outgoing, palatable, peaceable, pleasant-sounding,
pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, polished,
polite, pretty, profitable, radiant, rainless, regal, rewarding,
riant, rich, rosy, royal, sanguine, sanguineous, satisfying,
savory, silver-toned, silver-tongued, silver-voiced, silvery,
simpatico, singable, sisterly, skillful, smiling, sociable,
songful, songlike, sonorous, sound, sparkling, splendid, suave,
suitable, sunny, sweet, sweet-flowing, sweet-sounding, sympathique,
toothsome, tunable, tuneful, undarkened, unhostile, urbane, useful,
valid, very good, virtuous, welcome, welcoming, well-affected,
well-bred, well-disposed, well-intentioned, well-mannered,
well-meaning, well-meant, winning, winsome
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