Antonyms for pleasant
ˈplɛz əntpleas·ant

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1. pleasantadjective

   Antonyms:
   unpleasant

   Synonyms:
   nice

2. pleasantadjective

   Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner.

   Synonyms:
   nice

   Antonyms:
   unpleasant

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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.

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

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

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

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1. pleasant

   Antonyms:
   unpleasant, ungrateful, disagreeable, obnoxious, unacceptable, offensive, unlively, lugubrious, dull, ill-humored

   Synonyms:
   grateful, agreeable, acceptable, pleasurable, desirable, gratifying, cheerful, enlivening, sportive, delicious, delectable, jocular, satisfactory, exquisite, merry

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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

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1. pleasantadjective

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

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

How to use pleasant in a sentence?

1. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

   Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

2. Thomas Chandler Haliburton:

   Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

3. Charles Buxton:

   To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

4. H.L. Mencken:

   Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

5. Jennifer Love Hewitt:

   We had always been open to a third, but definitely didn't think in the crazy year that the entire world was having that it would necessarily be this moment, i feel like we've been able to so far raise two really special kids who will be great role models. This has been such a pleasant, beautiful, surprising gift in this time to be able to get to do all that again with another little human.

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