Category:Pleasant

Pleas"ant, a. Etym: [f. plaisant. See please.]

1. Pleasing; grateful to the mind or to the senses; agreeable; as, a Pleasant journey; pleasant weather. Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in Unity! Ps. cxxxiii. 1.

2. Cheerful; enlivening; gay; sprightly; humorous; sportive; as, Pleasant company; a pleasant fellow. From grave to light, from pleasant to serve. Dryden.

Syn. -- pleasing; gratifying; agreeable; cheerful; good-humored; Enlivening; gay; lively; merry; sportive; humorous; jocose; amusing; Witty. -- pleasant, pleasing, agreeable. Agreeable is applied to that which Agrees with, or is in harmony with, one's tastes, character, etc. Pleasant and pleasing denote a stronger degree of the agreeable. Pleasant refers rather to the state or condition; pleasing, to the Act or effect. Where they are applied to the same object, pleasing is More energetic than pleasant; as, she is always pleasant and always Pleasing. The distinction, however, is not radical and not rightly Observed.

Pleasant Pleas"ant, n.

Defn: a wit; a humorist; a buffoon. [obs.]