pleasant
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Adjective (2)
- affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings“we had a pleasant evening together”“a pleasant scene”“pleasant sensations”Opposite unpleasantSimilar enjoyable, pleasing, dulcet, beautiful, idyllic, gratefulRelates to pleasantness, sweetnessSee also aesthetic, agreeable, good-natured, nice, pleasing
- (of persons) having pleasing manners or behavior“I didn't enjoy it and probably wasn't a pleasant person to be around”Opposite awfulSimilar niceSee also relatable
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Translations
Adjective giving pleasure
- Spanish
- placentero
- French
- agréable
- German
- angenehm
- Italian
- piacevole
- Portuguese
- agradável
- Turkish
- hoş
- Russian
- прия́тный prijátnyj
- Arabic
- سَارّ sārr
- Chinese
- 愉快 yúkuài
- Japanese
- 楽しい tanoshii
20 more languages
- Dutch
- aangenaam
- Polish
- przyjemny
- Swedish
- angenäm
- Greek
- ευχάριστος efcháristos
- Korean
- 즐겁다 jeulgeopda
- Vietnamese
- dễ chịu
- Hungarian
- kellemes
- Portuguese (PT)
- agradável
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 愉快 yúkuài
- Catalan
- agradable
- Czech
- příjemný
- Danish
- rar
- Esperanto
- agrabla
- Estonian
- meeldiv
- Finnish
- miellyttävä
- Hebrew
- נָעִים na'ím
- Romanian
- plăcut
- Scottish Gaelic
- tlachdmhor
- Serbo-Croatian
- prijatan
- Slovenian
- prijeten
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. plaisant. See Please.
1. Pleasing; grateful to the mind or to the senses; agreeable; as, a pleasant journey; pleasant weather.
Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!— Ps. cxxxiii. 1.
2. Cheerful; enlivening; gay; sprightly; humorous; sportive; as, pleasant company; a pleasant fellow.
From grave to light, from pleasant to serve.— John Dryden
Synonyms: Pleasing; gratifying; agreeable; cheerful; good-humored; enlivening; gay; lively; merry; sportive; humorous; jocose; amusing; witty. — 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.
A wit; a humorist; a buffoon. obsolete
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54