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Synonyms for pleasant
ˈplɛz əntpleas·ant

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Wiktionary2.9 / 18 votes

  1. pleasantadjective

    Synonyms:
    nice

    Antonyms:
    unpleasant

  2. pleasantadjective

    Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner.

    Synonyms:
    nice

    Antonyms:
    unpleasant

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. pleasant

    That is pleasing from which pleasure is received, or may readily be received, without reference to any action or intent in that which confers it; as, a pleasing picture; a pleasing landscape. Whatever has active qualities adapted to give pleasure is pleasant; as, a pleasant breeze; a pleasant (not a pleasing) day. As applied to persons, pleasant always refers to a disposition ready and desirous to please; one is pleasant, or in a pleasant mood, when inclined to make happy those with whom he is dealing, to show kindness and do any reasonable favor. In this sense pleasant is nearly akin to kind, but kind refers to act or intent, while pleasant stops with the disposition; many persons are no longer in a pleasant mood if asked to do a troublesome kindness. Pleasant keeps always something of the sense of actually giving pleasure, and thus surpasses the meaning of good-natured; there are good-natured people who by reason of rudeness and ill-breeding are not pleasant companions. A pleasing face has good features, complexion, expression, etc.; a pleasant face indicates a kind heart and an obliging disposition, as well as kindly feelings in actual exercise; we can say of one usually good-natured, "on that occasion he did not meet me with a pleasant face." Pleasant, in the sense of gay, merry, jocose (the sense still retained in pleasantry), is now rare, and would not be understood outside of literary circles. Compare AMIABLE; COMFORTABLE; DELIGHTFUL.

    Synonyms:
    agreeable, attractive, good-natured, kind, kindly, obliging, pleasing, pleasurable

    Antonyms:
    arrogant, austere, crabbed, disagreeable, displeasing, dreary, forbidding, gloomy, glum, grim, harsh, hateful, ill-humored, ill-natured, offensive, repellent, repelling, repulsive, unkind, unpleasant

    Preposition:
    Pleasant to, with, or toward persons, about a matter.

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. pleasantadjective

    affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings

    "we had a pleasant evening together"; "a pleasant scene"; "pleasant sensations"

    Antonyms:
    beastly, acid, sharp-worded, sulfurous, blistering, tart, forbidding, afflictive, awful, harsh, rebarbative, acerbic, hot, repellent, rough, acrid, mortifying, virulent, hellish, bitter, repellant, dreadful, acerb, dour, unpleasant, sharp, unhappy, god-awful, sore, embarrassing, painful, nasty, caustic, vitriolic, ungrateful, sulphurous, grim

  2. pleasantadjective

    (of persons) having pleasing manners or behavior

    "I didn't enjoy it and probably wasn't a pleasant person to be around"

    Antonyms:
    ungrateful, sore, god-awful, sharp-worded, dour, grim, harsh, acrid, unhappy, hellish, vitriolic, caustic, acerb, virulent, tart, hot, repellant, sharp, mortifying, sulfurous, awful, rebarbative, rough, acid, unpleasant, forbidding, nasty, beastly, afflictive, painful, embarrassing, repellent, acerbic, sulphurous, dreadful, bitter, blistering

Dictionary of English Synonymes1.0 / 1 vote

  1. pleasantadjective

    Synonyms:
    pleasing, agreeable, delightful, delectable, gratifying, grateful, pleasurable, acceptable, welcome

  2. pleasantadjective

    Synonyms:
    cheerful, gay, lively, sprightly, vivacious, merry, good-humored

  3. pleasantadjective

    Synonyms:
    witty, facetious, humorous, jocose, jocular, sportive, amusing

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. pleasantadjective

    Synonyms:
    agreeable, genial, congenial, affable, amiable, enjoyable, good-humored, pleasurable

    Antonyms:
    unpleasant, disagreeable, uncongenial, repellent, repelling, austere, unamiable, inaffable, dreary, dismal, offensive

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How to use pleasant in a sentence?

  1. David Gosar:

    None of this is pleasant for any of us.

  2. Martin Zvonicek:

    The water was warm. This was very pleasant, and a great performance by the soloists. This is something I will remember, don Giovanni.

  3. Lucretius:

    Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.

  4. Charles Dickens:

    Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.

  5. Lucretius:

    Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.


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