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Synonyms for pleasure
ˈplɛʒ ərplea·sure

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Wiktionary3.0 / 2 votes

  1. pleasurenoun

    Synonyms:
    gratification, gladness, want, wish, fancy, discretion, delight, indulgence, happiness, joy, satisfaction, will, desire

    Antonyms:
    pain, displeasure

  2. pleasurenoun

    a state of being pleased

    Johnny pleasured Jackie orally last night.

    Synonyms:
    will, satisfaction, happiness, desire, gladness, fancy, discretion, gratification, wish, delight, indulgence, joy, want

    Antonyms:
    pain, displeasure

  3. pleasurenoun

    a person, thing or action that causes enjoyment

    Synonyms:
    happiness, will, gratification, delight, satisfaction, gladness, joy, wish, fancy, indulgence, want, desire, discretion

    Antonyms:
    displeasure, pain

  4. pleasurenoun

    one's preference

    What is your pleasure, coffee or tea?

    Synonyms:
    discretion, want, happiness, gladness, joy, delight, will, fancy, satisfaction, wish, desire, gratification, indulgence

    Antonyms:
    pain, displeasure

  5. pleasurenoun

    the will or desire of someone or some agency in power

    Synonyms:
    happiness, will, fancy, gladness, gratification, desire, discretion, indulgence, joy, delight, wish, want, satisfaction

    Antonyms:
    pain, displeasure

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. pleasure

    Entertainment and recreation imply thought and mental occupation, tho in an agreeable, refreshing way; they are therefore words of a high order. Entertainment, apart from its special senses of a public performance or a social party, and predominantly even there, is used of somewhat mirthful mental delight; recreation may, and usually does, combine the mental with the physical. Amusement and pastime are nearly equivalent, the latter probably the lighter word; many slight things may be pastimes which we should hardly dignify by the name of amusements. Sports are almost wholly on the physical plane, tho involving a certain grade of mental action; fox-hunting, horse-racing, and baseball are sports. Certain sports may afford entertainment or recreation to certain persons, according to their individual tastes; but entertainment and recreation are capable of a meaning so high as never to be approached by any meaning of sport. Cheer may be very quiet, as the cheer of a bright fire to an aged traveler; merriment is with liveliness and laughter; fun and frolic are apt to be boisterous. Amusement is a form of enjoyment, but enjoyment may be too keen to be called amusement. Compare synonyms for ENTERTAIN.

    Synonyms:
    amusement, cheer, delight, diversion, enjoyment, entertainment, frolic, fun, merriment, pastime, recreation, sport

    Antonyms:
    ennui, fatigue, labor, lassitude, toil, weariness, work

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 2 votes

  1. pleasure, pleasancenoun

    a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience

    "he was tingling with pleasure"

    Synonyms:
    pleasance, delight, joy

    Antonyms:
    pain, painfulness

  2. joy, delight, pleasurenoun

    something or someone that provides a source of happiness

    "a joy to behold"; "the pleasure of his company"; "the new car is a delight"

    Synonyms:
    joyousness, joy, pleasance, delectation, delight, joyfulness

    Antonyms:
    painfulness, pain

  3. pleasurenoun

    a formal expression

    "he serves at the pleasure of the President"

    Synonyms:
    pleasance, delight, joy

    Antonyms:
    painfulness, pain

  4. pleasurenoun

    an activity that affords enjoyment

    "he puts duty before pleasure"

    Synonyms:
    pleasance, delight, joy

    Antonyms:
    painfulness, pain

  5. pleasurenoun

    sexual gratification

    "he took his pleasure of her"

    Synonyms:
    pleasance, delight, joy

    Antonyms:
    pain, painfulness

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. pleasurenoun

    Synonyms:
    enjoyment, gratification, comfort, delight, joy, gladness, temporary happiness

  2. pleasurenoun

    Synonyms:
    sensuality, voluptuousness, luxury, animal gratification

  3. pleasurenoun

    Synonyms:
    will, choice, preference, purpose, wish, mind

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. pleasurenoun

    Synonyms:
    gratification, enjoyment, happiness, delectation, delight, amusement, recreation, diversion, will, choice, preference, desire, voluptuousness, sensuality

    Antonyms:
    displeasure

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#41963indulgent
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#54297frolic
#61631gladness
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#156194voluptuousness
#231713delectation
#271085joyfulness
#320546joyousness

How to use pleasure in a sentence?

  1. Bernard Mandeville:

    People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

  2. Voltaire:

    You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

  3. Chritine Daniels:

    Christmas dresser feeling pleasure

  4. George Sand:

    Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

  5. Russell Baker:

    Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.


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    An antonym for "pesky"
    A agreeable
    B pettish
    C plaguey
    D pestilent

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