Pleasant
['plez(ə)nt] or ['plɛznt]
Definition
(adj.) (of persons) having pleasing manners or behavior; 'I didn't enjoy it and probably wasn't a pleasant person to be around' .
(adj.) affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings; 'we had a pleasant evening together'; 'a pleasant scene'; 'pleasant sensations' .
Checker: Marsha--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Pleasing; grateful to the mind or to the senses; agreeable; as, a pleasant journey; pleasant weather.
(a.) Cheerful; enlivening; gay; sprightly; humorous; sportive; as, pleasant company; a pleasant fellow.
(n.) A wit; a humorist; a buffoon.
Typed by Lloyd
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Pleasing, agreeable, delightful, delectable, gratifying, grateful, pleasurable, acceptable, welcome.[2]. Cheerful, gay, lively, sprightly, vivacious, merry, good-humored.[3]. Witty, facetious, humorous, jocose, jocular, sportive, amusing.
Checker: Roberta
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Grateful, agreeable, acceptable, pleasurable, desirable, gratifying, cheerful,enlivening, sportive, delicious, delectable, jocular, satisfactory, exquisite,merry
ANT:Unpleasant, ungrateful, disagreeable, obnoxious, unacceptable, offensive,unlively, lugubrious, dull, ill-humored
Typed by Carlyle
Examples
- A short walk brought us to a secluded road fringed with pleasant houses, each standing in its own grounds. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Rather a pleasant year on the whole! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- She brought him some milk, and he drank of it gratefully and lay down again, to forget in pleasant dreams his lost battle and his humbled pride. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Mrs. Weston was very ready to say how attentive and pleasant a companion he made himselfhow much she saw to like in his disposition altogether. Jane Austen. Emma.
- He seems a very bright pleasant little fellow. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They know how to drive a stake through a pleasant tradition that will hold it to its place forever. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- One would think we were going into danger, the way you talk, said Roylands impatiently, instead of a pleasant cruise in Greek waters. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Assuredly, pleasant enough: but whether healthy or not is another question. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Well, it does look pleasant, but I can't learn how it's done. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Perhaps he did, having just left a pleasant little smoking-party of twelve medical students, in a small back parlour with a large fire. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He must say he thought a drone the embodiment of a pleasanter and wiser idea. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The pleasanter face which had replaced his, on the occasion of my last visit, answered to our summons, and went before us to the drawing-room. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In fact it seemed to be pleasanter to him to disappoint than to gratify. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The country is a vast deal pleasanter, is it not, Mr. Bingley? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- As she spoke, Mrs. March came and took her place among them, looking as if her holiday had not been much pleasanter than theirs. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- A timely word from me put Justice and Penelope on a pleasanter footing together. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Soon we were packed in it, as warm and as snug as at a fire-side; and the drive home was, I think, still pleasanter than the drive to the concert. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The Aged's reading reminded me of the classes at Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt's, with the pleasanter peculiarity that it seemed to come through a keyhole. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- You are much pleasanter as Sancho Panza than as Don Quixote. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Celia said to herself, I am sure Freshitt Hall would have been pleasanter than this. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- O, of course, our way is the pleasantest, said Eva. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- And with all this, the sweetest tempered person (I allude to Mr. Godfrey)--the simplest and pleasantest and easiest to please--you ever met with. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I thought his tone sounded sorrowful, but looking at him, I saw his kind face lighted up by its pleasantest smile. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The pleasantest part of the occasion by far, to Clennam, was the painfullest. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It was the pleasantest tea-table in the world. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- As had been the case on the Rio Grande, the people who remained at their homes fraternized with the Yankees in the pleasantest manner. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- His was the wittiest word, the pleasantest anecdote, the frankest laugh. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I am much obliged to you for one of the pleasantest evenings I ever spent in my life. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The shade was most refreshing, and Emma found it the pleasantest part of the day. Jane Austen. Emma.
- And I know all the pleasantest spots. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Editor: Sweeney