PLEASANT | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of pleasant in English pleasantadjective uk /ˈplez.ənt/ us /ˈplez.ənt/ Add to word list Add to word list A2 enjoyable, attractive, friendly, or easy to like: a pleasant climate/smile/person a pleasant day/surprise Harold did his best to be pleasant to the old man. It was pleasant to sit down after standing for hours. giving pleasure and holding your attention

• goodIt's a good film overall.
• enjoyableWe had an enjoyable time with Bob and Helen.
• pleasant The weather is pleasant but not too hot.
• interestingThe history of the place was really interesting.
• niceHave a nice day!

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• He roused himself from a pleasant daydream and got back to work.
• He spent a pleasant afternoon reading a book.
• I have many pleasant recollections of the time we spent together.
• The office is quite bright and airy - it's a pleasant working environment.
• My massage had left me with a pleasant tingly sensation.

Causing pleasure

• agreeable
• agreeableness
• agreeably
• all things to all people idiom
• attractive
• delightfully
• distraction
• diverting
• divertingly
• do someone's heart good idiom
• homey
• indulgent
• indulgently
• jovial
• jovially
• sensuous
• sensuously
• serendipitous
• sweeten
• swooning

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pleasantly pleasantness (Definition of pleasant from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

pleasant | American Dictionary

pleasantadjective us /ˈplez·ənt/ Add to word list Add to word list enjoyable or attractive, or (of a person) friendly and easy to like: We spent a pleasant afternoon at the beach. She had a pleasant manner and was popular with everyone.

pleasantly

adverb us /ˈplez·ənt·li/ Mohammed was pleasantly surprised to get a B in history. (Definition of pleasant from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of pleasant

pleasant It took a while to get in, but on your initial visit, he seemed pleasant enough. From the Cambridge English Corpus There, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. From the Cambridge English Corpus They said they enjoyed pleasant views and areas in which to take ' nice walks ' as well as the sense of belonging to a community. From the Cambridge English Corpus The combination of the author's broad view with her sense for the exemplary detail make this book a pleasant experience to read. From the Cambridge English Corpus This is hard to do, and as you get older and more famous you get more interesting and pleasant excuses to avoid doing it. From the Cambridge English Corpus It had many large windows on all the walls and was much more pleasant to work in. From the Cambridge English Corpus If her commitment to the properly subservient role of women is deep enough, recognizing the conflict might just lead her to reject a pleasant life. From the Cambridge English Corpus Those which are accessible, comfortable and pleasant are hard to find but are essential in the promotion of respect and a sense of equality. From the Cambridge English Corpus They need to provide a pleasant and comfortable environment for learning and to use architectural and design features to stimulate children's imaginations. From the Cambridge English Corpus One possible explanation for this, is that the instrument used is biased to normative, usually pleasant involvement in sensory and imaginative experiences. From the Cambridge English Corpus Both pleasant and traumatic aspects of life stories were included in the descriptions of historical events and the personal lives of the participants. From the Cambridge English Corpus The most pleasant experiences were still related to singing, but their relative share had diminished. From the Cambridge English Corpus They figure that the trip will be faster, safer, and more pleasant if one is designated as having authority over the others. From the Cambridge English Corpus It is written in a pleasant chatty style with obvious enthusiasm for the topic. From the Cambridge English Corpus He is short, handsome, with dark wavy hair, relaxed in manner, obviously intelligent, and pleasant to deal with. From the Cambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of pleasant?

Translations of pleasant

in Chinese (Traditional) 令人愉快的, 宜人的, 親切友好的… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 令人愉快的, 宜人的, 亲切友好的… See more in Spanish agradable, agradable [masculine-feminine, singular]… See more in Portuguese agradável, simpático… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian आनंददाय / प्रसन्न… See more 気持ちのよい, 楽しい, 楽（たの）しい… See more zevkli, hoş, çekici… See more agréable, beau/belle, aimable… See more agradable… See more aangenaam… See more சுவாரஸ்யமான, கவர்ச்சிகரமான, நட்பு… See more मनोहर, मधुर, सुहावना… See more આનંદપ્રદ, મજાનું… See more dejlig, rar… See more behaglig, angenäm… See more menyeronokkan… See more angenehm… See more hyggelig, behagelig, trivelig… See more خوشگوار, پرکشش, ملنسار… See more приємний… See more ప్రశాంతమైన… See more আনন্দদায়ক, হাসিখুশি, মনোজ্ঞ… See more příjemný, milý… See more menyenangkan… See more น่ายินดี… See more dễ chịu… See more przyjemny, sympatyczny… See more 즐거운, 유쾌한… See more piacevole, simpatico… See more Need a translator?

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