pleasurable

What it means

1. That gives pleasure

   The massage was a pleasurable experience.

   5 more examples

   c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers Planting of orchards is very […] pleasurable.

   At Rome every Pleasurable Female pays a Julio per Week to the Church […]

   1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of the Life of Sally Salisbury

   Happiness is, therefore, a thing most excellent and noble, as well as being most pleasurable […]

   1879, Walter Mooney Hatch, Edwin Hatch, The Moral Philosophy of Aristotle

   Impassioned pleas for pleasurable instruction appeared from the pens of such thinkers as Plato, Sidney, and Dryden, this ideal ultimately becoming one of the acknowledged cornerstones of neoclassical criticism.

   1978, Charles Batten, Pleasurable Instruction, →ISBN

   Opiate receptors in human brains allow us to perceive pleasurable stimuli such as sweet tastes.

   2006, Jonathan Balcombe, Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good, →ISBN

   Synonyms: nice, pleasant, pleasing

In a sentence

The massage was a pleasurable experience.

Where it comes from

From pleasure + -able.