pleasurable
[plezh-er-uh-buh l]
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Origin of pleasurable
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Examples from the Web for pleasurable
Contemporary Examples
For more than decade, flying has been made irksome rather than pleasurable by an ever-increasing fortress culture at airports.
Of course, pleasure is certainly more, well, pleasurable than pain.
Commit to exercise every day for the first month, even if the first time will be more annoying than pleasurable.
Made into a pleasurable movie starring Lee Marvin—worth seeing just for Jack Palance as a good guy.
That attitude has no doubt influenced whether these experiences are pleasurable or aversive.
Historical Examples
He experienced a feeling of pleasurable excitement and anticipation.
The Hound From The NorthRidgwell Cullum
The absence of Anthony was a relief and his visits were pleasurable.
ChanceJoseph Conrad
Whence it would seem that the contemplative life is not pleasurable.
On Prayer and The Contemplative LifeSt. Thomas Aquinas
And the burdensome one is toilsome, while the delightsome one is pleasurable.
On Prayer and The Contemplative LifeSt. Thomas Aquinas
But Manuel was too wily to yield to a temptation merely because it was pleasurable.
Plotting in Pirate SeasFrancis Rolt-Wheeler
pleasurable
- enjoyable, agreeable, or gratifying
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Word Origin and History for pleasurable
adj.
1570s, from pleasure (n.) + -able. Related: Pleasurability; pleasurably. For sense, cf. comfortable.
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