Synonyms for pleasure
ˈplɛʒ ərplea·sure

Wiktionary(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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 Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. pleasure

   Synonyms:
   enjoyment, gratification, sensuality, self-indulgence, voluptuousness, choice, preference, vill, inclination, purpose, determination, favor, satisfaction, indulgent

   Antonyms:
   pain, suffering, affliction, trouble, asceticism, self-denial, abstinence, disinclination, aversion, indisposition, denial, refusal

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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

Matched Categories

1. • Activity
   • Choice
   • Feeling
   • Positive Stimulus
   • Sexual Activity

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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 Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. pleasurenoun

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

   Antonyms:
   displeasure

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these paraphrases:

1. List of paraphrases for "pleasure":

   joy, fun, delight, pleased, satisfaction, plaisance, recreational, placentia, happy, honour, amusement, placer, gusto, enjoyment, placing, happiness, place, recreation, thrill, nice

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How to use pleasure in a sentence?

1. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce:

   Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

2. Maxim Gorky:

   When work is a pleasure, life is a joy — When work is a duty, life is slavery.

3. Haskell Wexler:

   You can ... figure you're an old guy and you (already) did your thing, then something inside me gets reminded that my 'thing' is what makes me alive -- to be able to have a camera and an idea and an urge that gives me pleasure.

4. Ezequiel Barrenechea:

   All these things were difficult, believe me, but it was a pleasure. The final result of this is a project that's unique and an example for all of the world.

5. Raoul Vaneigem:

   The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.