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See also:Pleasant

English

Etymology

FromMiddle Englishplesaunte, fromOld Frenchplaisant. Present participle ofEnglishplease. Related toDutchplezant(“full of fun or pleasure”). Partly displacedOld Englishwynsum, which becameModern Englishwinsome.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈplɛzənt/
Audio(US): (file)
Rhymes:-ɛzənt

Adjective

pleasant (comparativepleasanterormorepleasant,superlativepleasantestormostpleasant)

Givingpleasure;pleasing inmanner.
We had apleasant walk around the town.
It wasn't so hot outside, butpleasant enough to have lunch in the garden.
- 1611,The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […],→OCLC,Psalm 133:1:
  Behold, how good andpleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
- 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, inPride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] forT[homas] Egerton, […],→OCLC,page94:
  “I cannot see that London has any great advantage over the country, for my part, except the shops and public places. The country is a vast dealpleasanter, is not it, Mr. Bingley?”
- 1843 December 19,Charles Dickens, “Stave Three. The Second of the Three Spirits.”, inA Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London:Chapman & Hall, […],→OCLC,page109:
  “I was only going to say,” said Scrooge’s nephew, “that the consequence of his taking a dislike to us, and not making merry with us, is, as I think, that he loses somepleasant moments, which could do him no harm. I am sure he losespleasanter companions than he can find in his own thoughts, either in his mouldy old office, or his dusty chambers.
- 1871 December 27 (indicated as1872),Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson],Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, London:Macmillan and Co.,→OCLC:
  “O Oysters, come and walk with us!” / The Walrus did beseech. / “Apleasant walk, apleasant talk, / Along the briny beach:
- 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
  It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was aspleasant as talking; just to watch waspleasant.
- 1989,Hilary Mantel, chapter 2, inFludd‎^[1], New York: Henry Holt, published2000, page25:
  “[…] If you pray to St. Anne before twelve o’clock on a Wednesday, you’ll get apleasant surprise before the end of the week.”
(obsolete)Facetious,joking.
- 1599 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene ii]:
  [T]ell thepleasant prince this mock of his / Hath turn’d his balls to gun-stones[…]
- 1600,Thomas Dekker,The Shoemaker’s Holiday‎^[2], London: Dedication:
  […] I present you here with a merrie conceited Comedie, calledthe Shoomakers Holyday, acted by my Lorde Admiralls Players this present Christmasse, before the Queenes most excellent Maiestie. For the mirth andpleasant matter, by her Highnesse graciously accepted; being indeede no way offensiue.

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Translations

giving pleasure; pleasing in manner

Arabic:سَارّ (ar)(sārr),لَطِيف (ar)(laṭīf),مُمْتِع(mumtiʕ)
Armenian:հաճելի (hy)(hačeli)
Azerbaijani:xoş (az),fərəhli
Belarusian:прые́мны(pryjémny)
Bengali:আনন্দদায়ক (bn)(anndodaẏok),খোশ (bn)(khōś)
Bulgarian:прия́тен (bg)(prijáten)
Catalan:agradable (ca),plaent (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin:愉快 (zh)(yúkuài)
Czech:příjemný (cs) m
Danish:behagelig,rar
Dutch:aangenaam (nl),behaaglijk (nl),plezierig (nl),fijn (nl)
Esperanto:agrabla (eo),plezura,plaĉa
Estonian:meeldiv
Finnish:miellyttävä (fi),mukava (fi),rattoisa,kiva (fi)
French:agréable (fr),plaisant (fr)
Galician:pracenteiro (gl) m
German:angenehm (de)
Gothic:𐍅𐍉𐌸𐌴𐌹𐍃(wōþeis),𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽𐌴𐌼𐍃(andanēms)
Greek:ευχάριστος (el) m(efcháristos)
Ancient:ἡδύς(hēdús)
Hebrew:נָעִים (he)(na'ím)
Hindi:सुखद (hi)(sukhad)
Hungarian:kellemes (hu),(of a person)rokonszenves (hu)
Irish:grianmhar,lách,aiteasach,aoibheallach,taitneamhach
Italian:piacevole (it),gradito (it) m,gradevole (it) m or f
Japanese:愉快な (ja)(ゆかいな, yukai na),楽しい (ja)(たのしい, tanoshii)
Korean:유쾌하다 (ko)(yukwaehada),즐겁다 (ko)(jeulgeopda),기분 좋은(gibun jo'eun)
Latin:amoenus,bellus (la),benignus,blandus,dulcis,grātus,iūcundus,suāvis
Macedonian:пријатен(prijaten)
Maori:makue(of the taste of food),pārekareka,purotu,rerehua(to look at),matareka,āhuareka
Minangkabau:lamak (min)
Norman:pliaîsant(Jersey)
Old English:wynsum
Persian:دلپذیر (fa)(delpazir)
Polish:przyjemny (pl) m
Portuguese:agradável (pt)
Romanian:plăcut (ro) m,plăcută f,savurabil m or n,agreabil (ro) m or n
Russian:прия́тный (ru)(prijátnyj)
Sardinian:galanu
Scottish Gaelic:tlachdmhor
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic:при̏ја̄тан
Roman:prȉjātan (sh)
Slovak:príjemný
Slovene:prijeten (sl)
Spanish:agradable (es),placentero (es),placible (es),aplacible (es),apacible (es),ameno (es)
Swabian:ognehm
Swedish:angenäm (sv),trevlig (sv),behaglig (sv)
Thai:สนุก (th)(sà-nùk)
Turkish:sevimli (tr),tatlı (tr),hoş (tr),güzel (tr)
Ukrainian:приє́мний(pryjémnyj)
Vietnamese:dễ chịu (vi)
West Frisian:noflik (fy)

Noun

pleasant (pluralpleasants)

(obsolete) Awit; ahumorist; abuffoon.
- 1603,Philemon Holland, transl.,The Philosophie, commonlie calledthe Morals written by the learned philosopherPlutarch of Chæronea‎^[3], London, page1144:
  […]Galba was no better than one of the buffons orpleasants that professe to make folke merry and to laugh.
- 1696, uncredited translator,The General History of the Quakers byGerard Croese, London: John Dunton, Book 2, p. 96,^[4]
  Yea, in the Courts of Kings and Princes, their Fools, andPleasants, which they kept to relax them from grief and pensiveness, could not show themselves more dexterously ridiculous, than by representing theQuakers, or aping the motions of their mouth, voice, gesture, and countenance:

Anagrams

planates,platanes

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