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Definition: Pleasant |
PleasantAdjective1. Affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings; "a pleasant person to be around"; "we had a pleasant evening together"; "a pleasant scene"; "pleasant sensations". 2. Pleasant in manner or behavior; "I didn`t enjoy it and probably wasn't a pleasant person to be around". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pleasant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | Term applied to wine which is agreeable, generally light and pleasant to drink. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Term applied to wines having an agreeable flavour but lacking any outstanding quality. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Synonyms: PleasantSynonyms: humorous, jocose. (additional references) |
| Antonym: unpleasant (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Adjective: amusing, entertaining, diverting; Verb: recreational, recreative, lusory; pleasant; (pleasing); laughable; (ludicrous); witty; fun, festive, festal; jovial, jolly, jocund, roguish, rompish; playful, playful as a kitten; sportive, ludibrious. |
Cunning | Verb: be cunning; Adjective: have cut one's eyeteeth; contrive; (plan); live by one's wits; maneuver; intrigue, gerrymander, finesse, double, temporize, stoop to conquer, reculer pour mieux sauter, circumvent, steal a march upon; overreach; throw off one's guard; surprise; snatch a verdict; waylay, undermine, introduce the thin end of the wedge; play a deep game, play tricks with; ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces; flatter, make things pleasant; have an ax to grind. |
Deception | Decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; entrap, intrap, ensnare; nick, springe; set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait the hook, forelay, spread the toils, lime; trapan, trepan; kidnap; let in, hook in; nousle, nousel; blind a trail; enmesh, immesh; shanghai; catch, catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle, illaqueate, hocus, escamoter, practice on one's credulity; hum, humbug; gammon, stuff up, sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on; balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand; make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of, make an ass of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come over; (influence); gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon; dissemble. |
Flattery | Lay the flattering unction to one's soul, gild the pill, make things pleasant. |
Inexpectation | Unpleasant surprise, pleasant surprise. |
Motive | Tamper with, bribe, suborn, grease the palm, bait with a silver hook, gild the pill, make things pleasant, put a sop into the pan, throw a sop to, bait the hook. |
Pain | Make things pleasant, popularize, gild the pill, sugar-coat the pill, sweeten. |
Adjective: causing pleasure; Verb: laetificant; pleasure-giving, pleasing, pleasant, pleasurable; agreeable; grateful, gratifying; leef, lief, acceptable; welcome, welcome as the roses in May; welcomed; favorite; to one's taste, to one's mind, to one's liking; satisfactory; (good). | |
Physical Pleasure | Pleasant, agreeable . |
Wit | Adjective: witty, attic; quick-witted, nimble-witted; smart; jocular, jocose, humorous; facetious, waggish, whimsical; kidding, joking, puckish; playful; merry and wise; pleasant, sprightly, light, spirituel, sparkling, epigrammatic, full of point, ben trovato; comic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | It's quite pleasant if you're Hannibal Lector (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective; writing credit: Jack Bernstein, Jim Carrey and Tom Shadyac.) I tried to be pleasant and accommodating, but my head hurt from his banality (Se7en; writing credit: Andrew Kevin Walker) Ah, it will be one of their few pleasant memories when they're pumping gas for a living (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) If you start out depressed everything's kind of a pleasant surprise (Say Anything...; writing credit: Cameron Crowe) I did the math once; it turns out, every 17.4 dinners, my family actually has a pleasant meal together (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette) | |
Lyrics | And when she speaks, oh what a pleasant surprise (How Do You Feel; performing artist: Jefferson Airplane) What a pleasant dream (To the Moon and Back; performing artist: Savage Garden) | |
Tongue Twisters | A pleasant place to place a plaice is a place where a plaice is pleased to be placed. (references; author: unknown) Is a pleasant peasant's pheasant present? (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Pleasant Duty (1971) Green and Pleasant Land (1955) The Pleasant Sin (1929) Look Pleasant (1928) A Pleasant Journey (1923) | |
Song Titles | Pleasant Valley Sunday (performing artist: The Monkees) | |
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 | Pleasant homes grace the shoreline. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Landowner and Fred Johnson (right), NRCS District Conservationist, inspect the progress of vineyard in Mt. Pleasant, FL. Landowner farms 17 acres with 1/4 acre in grapes and the rest planted in corn and a variety of vegetable crops. [Slide 97CS3078]. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
 | Everyone has a great time at Catch A Special Thrill (CAST), a day of fishing at Lake Pleasant for disabled children. Credit: Chris Tincher. |  | Wow, dad look what I caught! Charles Golden and his daughter enjoy a fishing expedition on Lake Pleasant, north of Phoenix, Arizona. Credit: Unknown. |
 | Acrylic painting of a male Fulvous Whistling Duck by Burton E. Moore, Jr., 114 Pitt Street, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina 29464. A freelance artist and conservationist. Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page. |  | U.S. Army. Camp Hospital No.78, Chateau La Roche, Perigueux, France. : Pneumonia patients outside on pleasant days. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Pleasant View township comes down with Simon B. Tracey for County Treasurer. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Look pleasant, please / C. Gibson. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The box of Pandora at Mount Pleasant. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Aggression -- "Not a pleasant outlook for me!". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Cow" by Kevin Walsh Commentary: "Friesian cow chewing England's green and pleasant land." | "Summer house" by Kit Barker Commentary: "A summer house in pleasant gardens." |
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 | Light pizzicato and ambient sounds creating a pleasant mood. |
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Carlyle | Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading. |
Charles Buxton | To make pleasures pleasant shorten them. |
Christian Nevell Bovee | A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality. |
Francis Bacon | Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety. |
Horace | He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful. |
Seneca | We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. |
Virgil | Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember. |
| Perhaps some day it will be pleasant to remember even this. | |
Voltaire | Doubt is not a pleasant mental state but certainty is a ridiculous one. |
William Wordsworth | In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Now they seemed in pleasant conversation |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | That is my name, and I fear it may not be pleasant to you. |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | A sort of pleasant genial mantis that’s given up preying and taken up tennis instead |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | One of those pleasant and gay youngsters who go from place to place, with their knees sticking through their trousers |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Housework was a pleasant pastime |
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Health | Make mealtimes as relaxed and pleasant as possible. (references) | |
For most people who drink, alcohol is a pleasant accompaniment to social activities. (references) | ||
Users report sensations ranging from a pleasant feeling of floating to being separated from their bodies. (references) | ||
Business | The key seems to be to provide quality food in a pleasant, unusual atmosphere and at a reasonable price. (references) | |
This variation makes the country pleasant and interesting to live in, but it also restricts the summer period to just three or four months. (references) | ||
Economic History | Seychelles | During the coolest months, July and August, it drops to as low as 700F. The southeast trade winds blow regularly from May to November, and this is the most pleasant time of the year. (references) |
Somalia | The December-February period of the northeast monsoon also is relatively mild, although prevailing climatic conditions in Mogadishu are rarely pleasant. (references) | |
South Africa | The country has numerous natural attractions (including the Victoria Falls), relatively abundant wildlife and a generally pleasant climate. (references) | |
Travel | Yemen | In general, Sanaa's climate is pleasant year-round; temperatures are warm during the day and cool at night. (references) |
West Bank | Since the establishment of the PA, a number of new and pleasant restaurants have sprung up along the Gaza shore. (references) | |
Philippines | December, January and February are generally considered the most pleasant months. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earh and Canada. When the world was young and Man was new, And everything was pleasant, Distinctions Nature never drew 'Mongst kings and priest and peasant. We're not that way at present, Save here in this Republic, where We have that old regime, For all are kings, however bare Their backs, howe'er extreme Their hunger. And, indeed, each has a voice To accept the tyrant of his party's choice. A citizen who would not vote, And, therefore, was detested, Was one day with a tarry coat (With feathers backed and breasted) By patriots invested. "It is your duty," cried the crowd, "Your ballot true to cast For the man o' your choice." He humbly bowed, And explained his wicked past: "That's what I very gladly would have done, Dear patriots, but he has never run." Apperton Duke |
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Julie Andrews | Well, I grew up knowing only war, so for me, it was the way things were. It wasn't pleasant, by any means. But my mother used to say, Oh, Julie, if you could only have known it in pre-war times. And of course, that's what we're living in, you know, now. |
Samantha Geimer | We were just talking. It is kind of a long drive. I was feeling a little more at ease and he seemed a little more pleasant than the first time. So it didn't take long for me to get comfortable with him. |
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | I have not come here tonight to ask for pleasant luxuries or for idle pleasures. |
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| "Pleasant" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pleasant" is used about 2,705 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2,705 | 3,397 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "pleasant" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Pleasant | Last name | 3,000 | 4,122 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "pleasant". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Maadai | N/A | Biblical | Pleasant |
| Naam | N/A | Biblical | Pleasant |
| Shisha | N/A | Biblical | Pleasant |
| Pleasance | Female | English | To be pleasant |
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Expressions using "pleasant": anticipate a pleasant vacation ♦ be pleasant ♦ i wish you a pleasant journey! ♦ Lake Pleasant ♦ look pleasant ♦ make pleasant ♦ make things pleasant ♦ Mount Pleasant ♦ Mount Pleasant M ♦ pleasant by birth ♦ Pleasant City ♦ Pleasant Dale ♦ pleasant dreams! ♦ pleasant evening ♦ Pleasant Gap ♦ Pleasant Garden ♦ Pleasant Grove ♦ Pleasant Hall ♦ Pleasant Hill ♦ Pleasant Hills ♦ Pleasant Hope ♦ pleasant Island ♦ pleasant journey! ♦ Pleasant Lake ♦ Pleasant Mount ♦ Pleasant Plain ♦ Pleasant Plains ♦ Pleasant Prairie ♦ pleasant ridge ♦ Pleasant Run ♦ Pleasant Run Farm ♦ Pleasant Shade ♦ pleasant smell ♦ pleasant surprise ♦ pleasant taste ♦ Pleasant Valley ♦ Pleasant View ♦ Point Pleasant ♦ Point Pleasant Beach ♦ Seat Pleasant ♦ to make a pleasant contrast. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "pleasant": pleasant-faced, pleasant-featured, pleasant-looking, pleasant-natured, pleasant-sounding, pleasant-spoken, pleasant-tasting, Pleasant-tongued. | |
Ending with "pleasant": ever-pleasant, until-then-pleasant. | |
Containing "pleasant": North Vandergrift-Pleasant View. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "pleasant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | lekker (agreeable, agreeably, comfortably, enjoyable, good, lovely, nice, pleasantly), heerlik (agreeable, delicious, enjoyable, lovely, nice), aangenaam (agreeable, enjoyable, lovely, nice), behaaglik (agreeable, comfortable, enjoyable, lovely, nice, pleasing). (various references) | |
Albanian | që shkon (congruent, congruous, good tempered, soft), i mirë (benign, canny, carriageable, decent, desirable, fine, gentle, good, good tempered, goodly, handsome, keen, kind, kindhearted, kindly, lovely, nice, pukka, salable, tops, virtuous), i këndshëm (agreeable, beauteous, beautiful, delectable, delicious, dreamy, dulcet, entertaining, funny, good, good humoured, good tempered, good-humored, goodly, graceful, gracious, grateful, handsome, jocose, jocund, jolly, likable, likeable, lovely, nice, palatable, piquant, pretty, Savory, savoury, smooth, soft, sweet, sympathetic), i dashur (affable, affected, affectionate, amiable, baby, beloved, caring, darling, dear, debonair, fond, friendly, genial, gentle, good, good natured, kind, kindly, love, precious, sweetheart, sweetie, Sweeting, sweety, Truelove, Valentine, warm), i bukur (airy fairy, beauteous, beautified, beautiful, bonny, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, lovely, nice, pinup, pretty). (various references) | |
Arabic | ممتع (delightful, engaging, enjoyable, entertaining, fine, good, gratifying, interesting, lovely, pleasing, pleasurable, refreshing, sapid, sightly, what fun), مليح (beautiful, handsome, nice, pretty), مسلي (amusement, amusing, beguiler, diverting, entertaining, refreshing, sidesplitting), مرض (ail, ailment, be ill, become ill, complaint, disease, fall ill, fall sick, favorable, favourable, get ill, illness, infirmity, mal, malady, pleasing, pleasurable, pox, satisfactory, satisfying, sicken, sickness, take ill, trouble), لطيف (affable, agreeable, amiable, benign, bland, charming, civil, civilized, complaisance, complaisant, courteous, courtly, decent, delicate, fair, fair-spoken, fine, friendly, genial, gentle, good natured, gracious, handsome, kind, kindly, light, mild, nice, pet, polite, poppet, pretty, refreshing, smooth, soft, suave, sweet, tender, tenuous, thin, urbane), لذيذ (dainty, delectable, delicious, delightful, flavorful, flavourful, good, nice, palatable, sapid, savory, sweet, sympathetic, tasteful, tasty, toothsome, unique, yummy), ساحر (attractive, bewitched, captivating, charming, conjuror, darling, ducky, enchanting, engaging, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, magic, magical, magnetic, magus, mesmeric, prestigious, ravishing, stunning, taking, winning, winsome, zestful), سائغ (agreeable, dulcet, palatable, savory, savoury), جذاب (allurement, alluring, appealing, attractive, becoming, captivating, catching, catchy, charming, cute, desirable, ducky, engaging, enticing, fascinating, fetching, fine, inviting, magnetic, magnetizing, nice, picturesquely, prepossessing, pretty, seductive, sweet, taking, tasty), دمث (affable, courteous, gentle, mannerly, mild, suave). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | шеговит (facetious, frolic, humorous, jesting, jocose, joky, macaronic, merry, prankish, quizzical, sportful, tricksy, waggish), закачлив (chaffy, facetious, jesting, kittenish, larky, perky, playful, roguish, skittish, sly, troublesome, waggish), любезен (accommodating, affable, agreeable, amiable, bland, complaisant, courteous, debonair, fair, fair-spoken, friendly, gentle, gracious, kind, mellow, nice, obliging, polite, smooth, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, smooth-faced, soft spoken, urbane, well spoken), приятен (acceptable, agreeable, cheerful, clever, companionable, cozy, darling, easy, engaging, enjoyable, good, gracious, grateful, groovy, jocund, jolly, likable, likeable, likely, luscious, merry, musical, nice, nice-looking, not unwelcome, palatable, pleasing, pretty, refreshing, rose colored, rose coloured, sapid, satisfying, savoury, soft, sweet, sympathetic, toothsome, welcome). (various references) | |
Catalan | agradable (agreeable, enjoyable, lovely, nice). (various references) | |
Chinese | 愉快 (cheerful, cheerily, delighted, delightful, happy, pleasantly, pleasing), 宜人. (various references) | |
Czech | příjemný (agreeable, congenial, dulcet, engaging, enjoyable, good, jolly, neighborly, nice, pleasing, pleasurable, Savory, smooth, snug, suave, sweet, winning, winsome), zábavný (amusing, delectable, entertaining, humorous, light, sporting), veselý (blithesome, bright, cheerful, chirpy, convivial, exhilarated, gay, gleeful, happy, high-spirited, hilarious, humorous, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyous, light hearted, lively, merry, mirthful, rollicking, rorty, sportful, vivacious), živý (active, airy, alive, animated, bright, brisk, chirpy, clear, exhilarating, gay, heated, high-spirited, lifelike, live, lively, living, mercurial, perky, quick, racy, sprightly, vivacious, vivid). (various references) | |
Danish | behagelig (agreeable, enjoyable, lovely, nice). (various references) | |
Dutch | aangenaam (agreeable, agreeably, comfortably, enjoyable, lovely, nice, pleasantly). (various references) | |
Esperanto | plezura (agreeable), agrabla (agreeable, enjoyable, lovely, nice). (various references) | |
Faeroese | fittligur (agreeable, enjoyable, lovely, nice). (various references) | |
Finnish | miellyttävä (agreeable, attractive, enjoyable, likable, lovely, nice, pleasing). (various references) | |
French | agréable. (various references) | |
Frisian | swiet (agreeable, enjoyable, gentle, lovely, nice, soft, sweet, tender), noflik (agreeable, enjoyable, lovely, nice), gefallich (agreeable, enjoyable, lovely, nice). (various references) | |
German | angenehm (agreeable, agreeably, congenial, delightful, desirable, enjoyable, genial, genially, gracious, likable, likeable, lovely, nice, palatable, pleasantly, pleasing, pleasingly, pleasurable, savoury, welcome), gefällig (accommodating, accommodatingly, complaisant, complaisantly, compliant, compliantly, favorable, favourable, graceful, gracefully, helpful, obliging, pleasing, winsomely). (various references) | |
Greek | ευχάριστος (congenial, delightful, palatable). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתוק (lovely, mellow, sweet, sweetening), מהנה (enjoyable, pleasing, pleasurable), ערב (bailor, bondman, euphonious, guarantor, harmonious, succulent, surety, tasteful, tasty, toothsome), חביב (affable, beloved, genial, likable, lovable, lovely), נעים (agreeable, likable, lovely, sightly, soft, sweet), נחמד (adorable, charming, cute, dainty, delightful, desirable, lovely, mellow, nice, pretty), נאה (comely, dwelling, fine, habitation, handsome, meadow, natty, nice, pasture, personable, presentable, pretty, seemly, sightly). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kellemes (affable, agreeable, benign, bland, comfortable, comfy, congenial, cushy, dainty, debonair, delectable, delicate, dulcet, engaging, enjoyable, fine, genial, glad, grateful, harmonious, likable, lovely, nice, palatable, pleasing, pleasurable, refined, soft, suave, sweet, to elate, welcome). (various references) | |
Icelandic | þægilegur (agreeable, enjoyable, lovely, nice), ánægjulegt. (various references) | |
Indonesian | seronok (agreeable), nyaman (comfortable, pleasurable, tasteful), nikmat (comfortable, delicious, enjoyable, enjoyful, grace, luxury, sensuous), menyenangkan (agreeable, amusing, comfortable, congenial, cozy, enjoyable, entertaining, fine, groovy), gayeng (cheerful, interesting, warm). (various references) | |
Irish | aoibhinn. (various references) | |
Italian | piacevole (agreeable, beautiful, cushy, delightful, enjoyable, entertaining, genial, good, kindly, likeable, lovely, nice, pleasing, pleasurable, refreshing, sweet), gradevole (acceptable, affable, agreeable, enjoyable, friendly, good-natured, kind, lovely, nice, palatable, pleasurable, pretty), simpatico (agreeable, amiable, congenial, decent, delightful, likeable, nice, simpatico, sympathetic). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 良い (good, nice, ok), 愉快 (happy), 快い (agreeable). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たのしげ (cheerful, happy), きんかい (adjacent seas, coastal waters, delighful, feelings, gold bar, gold bullion, inner thoughts, nugget, thinking happily of), うれしい (glad, happy), ほほえましい (charming), かいてき (agreeable, comfortable), ごきげん (in a good mood, in high spirits), こころよい (agreeable), ここちよい (comfortable), らくちん (easy life, easy-going), ゆかい (happy), よい (drunkenness, early night hours, evening, good, implied meaning, intoxication, nice, ok). (various references) | |
Korean | 유괘한. (various references) | |
Manx | taitnyssagh (acceptable, amiable, amusing, appealing, charmed, congenial, delectable, delightful, enchanting, endearing, enjoyable, entertaining, grateful, likeable, nice, pleasing, pleasurable, prepossessing, scrumptious). (various references) | |
Norwegian | behagelig (agreeable, easy, enjoyable, lovely, nice). (various references) | |
Papiamen | agradabel (agreeable, enjoyable, lovely, nice). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | easantplay.(various references) | |
Polish | przyjemny (agreeable, enjoyable, lovely, nice, pleasing), miły (agreeable, enjoyable, lovely, nice). (various references) | |
Portuguese | agradável (agreeable, amiable, comely, congenial, cushy, delectable, delightful, easy, enjoyable, entertaining, fine, genial, gladsome, glorious, good-humored, good-humoured, goodly, good-natured, kindly, lovely, merry, music, musical, neat, nice, nutty, pleasing, pleasurable, prepossessing, pretty, racy, restful, snug, sober-blooded, soft, songful, stunner, suave, taking, welcome, well-done, well-natured), aprazível (agreeable, enjoyable, felicitous, fine, lovely, nice, pleasing), ameno (agreeable, bland, enjoyable, gentle, kindly, lovely, mild, nice, soft, suave, sweet, tender). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | agradáveis. (various references) | |
Romanian | plãcut (agreeable, cheerful, comely, dulcet, fine, genial, genially, gladsome, good, goodly, grateful, gratefully, gratifying, handsome, homey, kindly, likable, listenable, merry, neat, nice, pleasing, pleasurable, smooth, snug, sweet), vioi (active, alert, animated, breezy, bright, brisk, briskly, cheery, chirpy, crisp, full of beans, gamy, hasty, hoity toity, lightsome, lithe, live, lively, living, mercurial, merry, mettlesome, nimble, nimbly, quick-witted, racy, Randy, ready, smart, snappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, spry, vigorous, volatile), vesel (blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, convivial, crank, debonair, elastic, feastful, festal, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, full-blooded, gaily, gamesome, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, in full feather, in high feather, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyfully, joyous, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, riant, saucy, sprightly, tails up, wanton), simpatic (attractive, attractively, congenial, inclination, ingratiating, kindly, likable, lovely, nice, nicely, pleasing, prepossessing, pretty, shine, sympathetic), savuros (chaming, luscious, racy, relishing, sapid, Savory, savoury, tasty), mitunat, animat (animated, spirited, sprightly), agreabil (agreeable, agreeably, attractive, boon, charming, cheerful, delightful, enjoyable, genial, genially, good, gratefully, gratifying, nice, pleasing, pleasurable, smooth-faced). (various references) | |
Russian | приятный (agreeable, cuddly, cushy, dulcet, enjoyable, graceful, grateful, jolly, likable, nice, palatable, peachy, pleasurable, prepossessing, pretty, satisfactory, simpatico, soft, sweet-tempered). (various references) | |
Scottish | uigheil, toigh (agreeable, I like, loved : is toigh leam, see phrase), teamhaidh, sòlasach (comforting, consoling, content), mialta, aoibhinn. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prijatan (agreeable, bonny, conversable, cosy, cozy, delectable, enjoyable, gratified, gratifying, jolly, nice, pleasing, pleasurable, savory, savoury, welcome), umilan (ingratiating, suave). (various references) | |
Spanish | agradable (agreeable, capacious, comfortable, congenial, enjoyable, genial, goodly, likable, lovely, nice, palatable, pleasing, pleasurable, prepossessing, satisfying, welcome). (various references) | |
Sranan | switi (agreeable, enjoyable, gentle, lovely, nice, soft, sweet, tender). (various references) | |
Swedish | angenäm (agreeable, enjoyable, grateful, gratifying, lovely, merry, nice), trevlig (agreeable, cheerful, companionable, cute, enjoyable, fun, genial, good, homy, jolly, lovely, nice), behaglig (agreeable, attractive, congenial, cushy, delectable, easy, enjoyable, fair, genial, goodly, graceful, kind, likable, likeable, lovely, nice, palatable, pleasing, Savory, savoury). (various references) | |
Tagalog | nakalúlugód (agreeable, enjoyable, lovely, nice). (various references) | |
Turkish | uygun (acceptable, accommodating, adaptable, adequate, advisable, agreeable, allowable, answerable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, becoming, befitting, calculated, comely, commensurate, comparative, compatible, concordant, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, consistent, convenient, cool, correct, decent, done, due, eligible, enjoyable, equal, expedient, fair, fair enough, favorable, favourable, felicitous, fine, fit, fitted, fitting, for, in place, keen, likely, lovely, made to order, matching, meet, nice, opportune, permitting, pertinent, proper, propitious, proportional, prosperous, pursuant, relevant, ripe, seasonable, seemly, Square, suitable, suited, tailormade, up to, well, well-matched), tatlı (afters, agreeable, amiable, beautiful, blancmange, delightful, dessert, dulcet, fruity, honeyed, honied, luscious, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellow, saccharine, sapid, silken, silky, smooth, soft, suave, subtile, subtle, sugary, sweet, sweetie, sweeties, sweetmeat, toothsome), sevimli (amiable, appealing, bonny, charming, cuddlesome, cuddly, cunning, cute, delectable, fair, likable, likeable, lovable, lovely, nice, prettily, pretty, sapid, sympathetic, winning, winsome), keyifli (blissful, bucked, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, cosy, delighted, elevated, fit as a fiddle, gay, in a good mood, jolly, jovial, merry, pleased, rejoicing, up), hox (agreeable, enjoyable, gentle, lovely, nice, pretty, soft, sweet, tender), hoş (affable, agreeable, beautiful, bonny, canny, charming, clean-cut, congenial, debonair, debonaire, delectable, delicious, delightful, desirable, elegant, enjoyable, fine, fragrant, handsome, jolly, kind, kindly, likable, likeable, lovable, lovely, nice, nicely, pleasing, pleasurable, prettily, pretty, sapid, smart, smooth, suave, subtile, subtle, sweetly, tuneful, well, winning, winsome), güzel (appealing, beauteous, beautiful, beautifully, beauty, Belle, bonny, comely, fair, fine, goluptious, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, lovely, nice, nifty, personable, plummy, prettily, pretty, pulchritudinous, sapid, shapely, sightly, smart, swell, the beautiful, well, well favored, well-favoured, winsome), şirin (cunning, cute, debonair, debonaire, fair, lovely, sonsy, winsome). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яyly (warm), яakymly (nice), mylaяym (nice, warm), mдhirli (warm), mazaly (calmly), hoюamaя (affable). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | славний (decent, glorious, hunky-dory, nice, noble), веселий (airy, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, canty, cavalier, cheerful, cheery, chipper, chirpy, convivial, debonair, exhilarated, gay, happy go lucky, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful, perky, rackety, sportful, sunny), приємний (acceptable, agreeable, amiable, balmy, beautiful, boon, canny, clean-cut, complimentary, couth, cozy, cushy, delectable, dulcet, easy, enjoyable, glad, good, goodly, graceful, grateful, jocund, kindly, lepid, nice, nutty, palatable, pleasing, pleasurable, prepossessing, pretty, redolent, satisfactory, tasty, welcome, yummy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vui vẻ (blithe, blithesome, boon, canty, cheery, chirk, debonair, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, good-humored, good-humoured, heartily, hearty, hilarious, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, laughing, merrily, mirthful, sportful), vui (amusing, diverting, merrily, merry, mirthful), vừa ý (complacent, content, contented), thú vị (delectable, diverting, enjoyable, entertaining, merry, nicely, pleasing, pleasurable, pretty, rorty), làm thích ý, hay pha trò, hay khôi hài (facetious, playful), êm đềm (calm, slumberous, slumbrous), đẹp hay. (various references) | |
Welsh | hyfryd (agreeable, delightful). (various references) | |
Wolof | neex. (various references) | |
Xhosa | ibemnandi (Be pleasant). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | acceptabilis, acceptus, blanda, blande, blandis, bona, bonae, bonam, bonas, bone, boni, bonis, bono, bonorum, bonos, bonum, bonus, dulce, dulcem, dulces, dulcia, dulcibus, dulciora, dulciores, dulcique, dulcis, dulcissima, dulcius, facilis, genialis, iucunda, iucundo, iucundum, iucundus, jucundus, lepidus, melior, meliora, meliorem, meliores, melioresque, meliori, melioribus, melioris, melius, optima, optimae, optimam, optimas, optime, optimi, optimis, optimo, optimos, optimum, optimus, salboni, suave, suavem, suavi, suavis, suavissimi, suavissimos, suavissimum, suavissimus, voluptarius. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | leof. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 9, Verse 17 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Artwn krufiwn hdewV ayasqe kai udatoV klophV glukerou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Aquae furtivae dulciores sunt et panis absconditus suavior |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Stoln watris ben swettere, and hid bred more swete. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 9, Verse 17 |
| Cebuano | Matam-is ang kinawat nga mga tubig, Ug lamian ang tinapay nga pagakan-on sa tago. |
| Chinese | 偷 來 的 水 是 甜 的 、 暗 喫 的 餅 是 好 的 。 |
| Croatian | "Kradena je voda slatka i ugodno je potajno jesti kruh." |
| Danish | Stjålen Drik er sød, lønligt Brød er lækkert! |
| Dutch | De gestolen wateren zijn zoet, en het verborgen brood is liefelijk. |
| Finnish | "Varastettu vesi on makeata, ja salattu leipä on suloista". |
| French | Les eaux dérobées sont douces, Et le pain du mystère est agréable! |
| German | "Die gestohlenen Wasser sind süß, und das verborgene Brot schmeckt wohl." |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | "Air curian rasanya manis, dan makan sembunyi-sembunyi lebih enak." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa air curian itu manis rasanya dan roti larangan itu sedap. |
| Italian | «Le acque furtive sono dolci, il pane preso di nascosto è gustoso». |
| Maori | He reka te wai tahae, a he ahuareka te taro kai huna. |
| Norwegian | Stjålet vann er søtt, og brød som etes i lønndom, smaker herlig. |
| Portuguese | As águas roubadas são doces, e o pão comido às ocultas é agradável. |
| Rumanian | ,,Apele furate sknt dulci, wi pknea luatq pe ascuns este plqcutq!`` |
| Russian | `ЧПДЩ ЛТБДЕОЩЕ УМБДЛЙ, Й ХФБЕООЩК ИМЕВ РТЙСФЕО`. |
| Spanish | "Las aguas hurtadas son dulces, y el pan comido en oculto es delicioso." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pleasant": pleasanter, pleasantest, pleasantly, pleasantness, pleasantnesses, pleasantries, pleasantry. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "pleasant": unpleasant. (additional references) | |
Words containing "pleasant": unpleasantly, unpleasantness, unpleasantnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Pleasant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: plaesant, plaesent, plaisant, plasant, pleasan, pleasent, plesant, plesent, pleurant. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pleasant" (pronounced ple"zunt) |
| 7 | p l e" z u n t | unpleasant. |
| 5 | -e" z u n t | omnipresent, peasant, pheasant, present. |
| 4 | -z u n t | cognizant. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pigment, piquant, placement, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: platanes. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-l-n-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: anapest, palates, peasant, planate, planets, platane, platans, platens, saltpan, sealant. | |
-2 letters: alants, alates, ansate, apneal, apneas, aslant, lanate, latens, paeans, paesan, palate, palest, palets, panels, pastel, patens, petals, planes, planet, plants, platan, platen, plates, pleats, salpae, septal, splent, staple, tepals. | |
-3 letters: alane, alans, alant, alate, anlas, ansae, antae, antas, antes, apnea, aspen, ataps. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-l-n-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: palatines, panatelas, panetelas, pantalets, placentas. | |
+2 letters: analeptics, appellants, leadplants, nameplates, pantalones, placentals, pleasanter, pleasantly, pleasantry, tailplanes, transeptal, unpleasant. | |
+3 letters: analphabets, antechapels, antiplagues, cantaloupes, encapsulate, floatplanes, manipulates, palatinates, pantalettes, parliaments, pastureland, paternalism, paternalist, pentagonals, phalanstery, planarities, pleasantest, transalpine. | |
+4 letters: antipleasure, appellations, encapsulated, encapsulates, explanations, kleptomanias, malapertness, naphthalenes, palatialness, pansexuality, passionately, pastoralness, pasturelands, paternalisms, paternalists, planetariums, planetesimal, plantigrades, platemakings, pleasantness, pleasantries, postneonatal, proletarians, speciational, supernatural, transplanted, transplanter, transposable, unpleasantly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Names: Frequency | 17. Names: Derived from 18. Expressions 19. Expressions: Internet 20. Translations: Modern | 21. Translations: Ancient 22. Bible Trace 23. Derivations 24. Rhymes | 25. Anagrams 26. Bibliography |
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