pleasantadjective
uk/ˈplez.ənt/us/ˈplez.ənt/A2 enjoyable, attractive, friendly, or easy to like:
a pleasant climate/smile/person
a pleasant day/surprise
Harold did his best to be pleasant to the old man.
It was pleasant to sit down after standing for hours.
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- He roused himself from a pleasant daydream and got back to work.
- He spent a pleasant afternoon reading a book.
- I have many pleasant recollections of the time we spent together.
- The office is quite bright and airy - it's a pleasant working environment.
- My massage had left me with a pleasant tingly sensation.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Causing pleasure
- agreeable
- all things to all people idiom
- attractive
- banging
- be better than sex idiom
- brighten
- do sb the world of good idiom
- dreamy
- ducky
- enchant
- engaging
- jolly
- keep on the right side of sb idiom
- keep sb sweet idiom
- knock
- leafy
- lighten
- lovely
- quench
- tickle
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pleasantly
adverb uk/ˈplez.ənt.li/us/ˈplez.ənt.li/
B1
They treated me pleasantly enough.
Jacqui was pleasantly surprised to get a B in history.
pleasantness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈplez.ənt.nəs/us/ˈplez.ənt.nəs/