enjoyable
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- enjoyableness noun
- enjoyably adverb
- preenjoyable adjective
- unenjoyable adjective
- unenjoyableness noun
- unenjoyably adverb
Etymology
Origin of enjoyable
Explanation
Enjoyable is an adjective that describes anything full of delight and fun. Woohoo! If you’re able to enjoy something, it’s enjoyable. If it’s pleasurable, fun, and you want to do it more, it’s enjoyable. Different people find different things enjoyable. While shoe shopping might be enjoyable to you, it might not be for your best friend. She might find mud wrestling more enjoyable.
Vocabulary lists containing enjoyable
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Example Sentences
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His disaffected tech titan in “The Audacity,” now on AMC, is one of that series’ more enjoyable aspects.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
In a 2025 interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick, Wintour maintains she found the film “highly enjoyable and very funny,” adding that she and Miuccia Prada still discuss it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
Even Marin’s incessant flippancy and Chong’s “maaan”s punctuating every other sentence become enjoyable the more time one spends with them.
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026
If people were told they were consuming a drink with artificial sweeteners, they rated sugar-containing drinks as less enjoyable.
From Science Daily • Apr. 9, 2026
A book so enjoyable to read couldn’t be very ‘important.’
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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