Definitions for pleasant
ˈplɛz əntpleas·ant

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. pleasant(adj)

   affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings

   "we had a pleasant evening together"; "a pleasant scene"; "pleasant sensations"

2. pleasant(adj)

   (of persons) having pleasing manners or behavior

   "I didn't enjoy it and probably wasn't a pleasant person to be around"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. pleasant(Adjective)

   Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner.

   Etymology: From plaisant.

Webster Dictionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Pleasant(adj)

   pleasing; grateful to the mind or to the senses; agreeable; as, a pleasant journey; pleasant weather

2. Pleasant(adj)

   cheerful; enlivening; gay; sprightly; humorous; sportive; as, pleasant company; a pleasant fellow

3. Pleasant(noun)

   a wit; a humorist; a buffoon

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'pleasant' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3649

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'pleasant' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3492

3. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'pleasant' in Adjectives Frequency: #477

How to pronounce pleasant?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of pleasant in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of pleasant in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of pleasant in a Sentence

1. William Shakespeare:

   Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

2. Mark Sanford:

   I did meet Maria Butina, a few interactions were pleasant, it's the girlfriend of a guy I've known for 30 years. She seemed nice enough.

3. Otto Frank:

   One day in Auschwitz I became so dispirited that I couldn't carry on. They had given me a beating, which wasn't exactly a pleasant experience. It was on a Sunday, and I said: 'I can't get up'. Then my comrades said: 'That's impossible, you have to get up, otherwise you're lost'. They went to a Dutch doctor, who worked with the German doctor. He came to me in the barracks and said: 'Get up and come to the hospital barracks early tomorrow morning. I'll talk to the German doctor and make sure you are admitted'. Because of that I survived.

4. Kim Yo Jong:

   Honestly, I didn’t know I would come here so suddenly. I thought things would be strange and very different, but I found a lot of things being similar, here’s to hoping that we could see the pleasant people (of the South) again in Pyeongchang and bring closer the future where we are one again.

5. James Baldwin:

   Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

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