Pleasant
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pleasant¹
- /ˈplɛz.ənt/
- [ˈplɛz.n̩t]
- /ˈplez.ənt/ Australia
Rhymes with -ɛzənt
Where it comes from
From Middle English plesaunte, from Old French plaisant. By surface analysis, please + -ant. Related to Dutch plezant (“full of fun or pleasure”). Partly displaced Old English wynsum, which became Modern English winsome.
adjective more pleasant · pleasanter · most pleasant · pleasantest
- Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner. We had a pleasant walk around the town.
- Facetious, joking. [T]ell the pleasant prince this mock of his / Hath turn’d his balls to gun-stones […]
Similar: agreeable, appropriate, nice, pleasurable, felicitous, gorgeous, acceptable, amiable, charming, comely, pleasant, pleasing
noun pleasants
- A wit; a humorist; a buffoon. […] Galba was no better than one of the buffons or pleasants that professe to make folke merry and to laugh.
Pleasant²
proper noun
- A surname.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in Switzerland County, Indiana, United States.
- A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Pleasant Township.
