pleasant
Americanadjective
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pleasing, agreeable, or enjoyable; giving pleasure.
pleasant news.
- Synonyms:
- gratifying, welcome
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(of persons, manners, disposition, etc.) socially acceptable or adept; polite; amiable; agreeable.
- Synonyms:
- friendly, congenial, delightful
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fair, as weather.
a pleasant summer day.
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Archaic. lively, sprightly, or merry.
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Obsolete. jocular or facetious.
adjective
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giving or affording pleasure; enjoyable
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having pleasing or agreeable manners, appearance, habits, etc
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obsolete merry and lively
Other Word Forms
- pleasantly adverb
- pleasantness noun
Etymology
Origin of pleasant
First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English plesaunt, from Old French plaisant, originally present participle of plaisir “to please”; equivalent to please + -ant
Example Sentences
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Fighting with the IRS after filing a tax return is not efficient or pleasant, Zareh noted.
From MarketWatch
"It's not a pleasant feeling and honestly I'm still trying to understand what happened specifically," said Malinin, the son of Olympic figure skaters who represented Uzbekistan and emigrated to the United States.
From Barron's
There are certainly flints of autobiography and different friends in different characters — they’ve read it and liked it, and if they saw themselves, they were pleasant about it.
From Los Angeles Times
Under cross examination, Campbell's KC Tony Lenehan asked her: "These last two years have not been pleasant years... tumultuous."
From BBC
I’ve been stuck with sandy feet for ten straight hours, and it’s not pleasant— even though six of those hours were spent half-asleep on an overnight flight.
From Literature
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