Pleasant

//ˈplɛz.ənt// adj, name, noun

adj, name, noun ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A wit; a humorist; a buffoon. obsolete

    "[…] Galba was no better than one of the buffons or pleasants that professe to make folke merry and to laugh."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner.

    "We had a pleasant walk around the town."

  2. 2
    Facetious, joking. obsolete

    "[T]ell the pleasant prince this mock of his / Hath turn’d his balls to gun-stones […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    (of persons) having pleasing manners or behavior wordnet
  2. 2
    affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A township and unincorporated community therein, in Switzerland County, Indiana, United States.
  3. 3
    A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Pleasant Township.

Synonyms

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pleasingdulcetgratefulnicepleasurableentertaining

Example

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"Nothing is so pleasant as traveling by air."

Etymology

From Middle English plesaunte, from Old French plaisant. By surface analysis, please + -ant. Related to Dutch plezant (“full of fun or pleasure”). Partly displaced Old English wynsum, which became Modern English winsome.

Related phrases

Lake PleasantMount PleasantPleasant GrovePleasant HillsPleasant MoundPleasant PrairiePleasant ValleyPoint Pleasantgood natured

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