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Pleasant

//ˈplɛz.ənt// adj, name, noun

Definitions

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.
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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

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