Synonyms for pleasant
- adjective
All synonyms
Adjective
pleasurable, nice informal, enjoyable, pleasing, good, agreeable, beautiful, amiable, sweet, mild, cordial, delightful, welcome, comfortable, congenial, gratifying, cheerful, charming, attractive, cheery, bright, genial, delicious, kind, sunny, affable, dulcet, acceptable, companionable, entertaining, good-natured, felicitous, sprightly, desirable, fair, humorous, humourous UK, delectable, suave, appropriate, bonnie, grateful dated, goodly dated, kindly dated, gorgeous rare
Definitions
- adj. 1
Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner.
We had a pleasant walk around the town.
Related words
- Word family
- pleasantly pleasantness pleasantry pleasure
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A pleasant face and pleasing manners arouse pleasurable sensations, and make the possessor an agreeable companion; if possessed of intelligence, vivacity, and goodness, such a person's society will be delightful.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- enjoyable Do you really think doing that would be enjoyable?
- pleasing How could you possibly find this stench pleasing?
- agreeable All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes.
- pleasurable I've always found her unbelievably pleasurable.
- sweet Those grapes look sweet, but in fact they're sour.
- mild Spring brings mild weather after the cold winter.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| pleasant | rising | |
| enjoyable | rising | |
| pleasing | steady | |
| agreeable | steady | |
| pleasurable | rising | |
| sweet | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- good1, kind1, nice1, fair1, mild1
- 5 letters
- sweet1, sunny2, suave1
- 6 letters
- bright1, kindly2, bonnie2, cheery2, genial2, goodly2, dulcet2
- 7 letters
- welcome2, cordial2, amiable4, affable3
- 8 letters
- grateful2, gorgeous2, charming2, pleasing2, cheerful2, humorous3
- 9 letters
- beautiful3, delicious3, enjoyable4, desirable4, agreeable4, congenial3, sprightly2, humourous
- 10 letters
- attractive3, acceptable4, delightful3, gratifying4, delectable4, felicitous4
- 11 letters
- comfortable4, appropriate4, pleasurable4
- 12 letters
- entertaining4
- 13 letters
- companionable
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (sunny2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- plaisant
- Italiano
- piacente
- Español
- placentero
- Deutsch
- erfreulich
- Català
- plaent