单词 | pleasant |
释义 | pleas·ant 1. < hills that make very pleasant scenery — Jane Shellhase > < the changes make for a pleasanter life — C.B.Palmer b. 1910 > 2. a. < there will be wit from one auctioneer, and pleasant clowning from another — Cornelius Weygandt > b. archaic c. 3. < a pleasant scoundrel who certainly knew how to avoid risking his neck — H.J.Laski > < a very pleasant person to live with — Mary Austin > Synonyms: < a pleasant riverside walk — S.P.B.Mais > < a bottle of … pleasant red or white wine — Harry Gilroy > < its streamlined shape is pleasing to the eye and appeals to the esthetic sense — H.G.Armstrong > < a pleasing group of white clapboard houses with small lawns — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > agreeable implies a harmony with one's tastes or likings < a small room … simple and agreeable, with whitewashed walls, rusty linen curtains at the windows, and a wide inviting wooden bed — Gordon Merrick > < a pretty face with its agreeable snub nose — Ethel Wilson > grateful implies both pleasing and agreeable and stresses a satisfaction and especially relief afforded the senses or mind < the log fire was a grateful warmth against the lingering chill of April — Lucien Price > < the grateful smell of cooking pork grew every moment more perfect — Ethel Anderson > < placing every instrument in its most brilliant and grateful register — Virgil Thomson > gratifying applies chiefly to what affords mental pleasure by satisfying desires, hopes, or conscience < the building is aesthetically gratifying — American Guide Series: Louisiana > < with gratifying rapidity this promise was fulfilled — Allan Nevins > welcome even more than pleasing stresses a pleasure or satisfaction given by the thing to which the word is applied, often suggesting a prior need or longing satisfied by the thing < a screen playwright and craftsman of fresh-springing wit and welcome intelligence — Lee Rogow > < the sweet trill of a toad and the voice of the peeper are a welcome chorus — A.F.Gustafson > |
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