pleasant Meaning, Definition & Usage

adjective affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings
- we had a pleasant evening together
- a pleasant scene
- pleasant sensations
adjective satellite (of persons) having pleasing manners or behavior
- I didn't enjoy it and probably wasn't a pleasant person to be around

F. plaisant. See Please.

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.
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.