pleasant
Use Pleasant in a sentence
ənt adjective
2.
(of persons, manners, disposition, etc.) socially acceptable or adept; polite; amiable; agreeable.
3.
fair, as weather: a pleasant summer day.
4.
Archaic. gay, sprightly, or merry.
5.
Obsolete. jocular or facetious.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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| —adj | |
| 1. | giving or affording pleasure; enjoyable |
| 2. | having pleasing or agreeable manners, appearance, habits, etc |
| 3. | obsolete merry and lively |
| [C14: from Old French plaisant, from plaisir to | |
| 'pleasantly | |
| —adv | |
| 'pleasantness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
pleasant
1320, from O.Fr. plaisant, prp. of plaisir "to please" (see please). Pleasantry "sprightly humor in conversation" (1655) is from Fr. plaisanterie, from O.Fr. plesanterie (13c.), from plaisant. It has the word's modern Fr. sense of "funny, jocular."
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Example sentences
Maybe they are more adaptable in society and have a more pleasant existence.
The economics suggest it would be cheaper, easier, and more pleasant for the workers to hire them to sit around and do nothing.
It produces a heavenly tingly-cool sensation and at the same time a pleasant inner glow.
These are a bit cheaper but take longer, and train travel is so much more pleasant.
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