Pleasant

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pleasant \Pleas"ant\, n.
     A wit; a humorist; a buffoon. [Obs.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pleasant
       adj 1: affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or
              likings; "a pleasant person to be around"; "we had a
              pleasant evening together"; "a pleasant scene";
              "pleasant sensations" [ant: {unpleasant}]
       2: pleasant in manner or behavior; "I didn`t enjoy it and
          probably wasn't a pleasant person to be around"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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