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pleasant

  • adjective
  • /ˈplɛz.ənt/

Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner.

Example

“We had a pleasant walk around the town.”

Other meanings

  1. Facetious, joking.

Synonyms

  • appropriate
  • nice

Antonyms

  • nasty
  • unpleasant

Related words

  • pleasantish
  • Lake Pleasant
  • Mount Pleasant
  • Pleasant Grove
  • Pleasant Hills
  • pleasantly
  • Pleasant Mound
  • pleasantness
  • Pleasant Prairie
  • pleasantry
  • Pleasant Valley
  • Point Pleasant

Example sentences

  • “The tropical breeze made the evening even more pleasant.”

    Tatoeba · Igider · CC0

Word history

From Old French "plaisant".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “pleasant” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.