pleasant

comparative more pleasant · comparative pleasanter · superlative most pleasant · superlative pleasantest

1. Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner.

   We had a pleasant walk around the town.

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   It wasn't so hot outside, but pleasant enough to have lunch in the garden.

   Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalm 133:1

   “I cannot see that London has any great advantage over the country, for my part, except the shops and public places. The country is a vast deal pleasanter, is not it, Mr. Bingley?”

   1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 94

   “I was only going to say,” said Scrooge’s nephew, “that the consequence of his taking a dislike to us, and not making merry with us, is, as I think, that he loses some pleasant moments, which could do him no harm. I am sure he loses pleasanter companions than he can find in his own thoughts, either in his mouldy old office, or his dusty chambers.

   1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Three. The Second of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 109

   “O Oysters, come and walk with us!” / The Walrus did beseech. / “A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, / Along the briny beach:

   1871 December 27 (indicated as 1872), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC

2. obsoleteFacetious, joking.

   [T]ell the pleasant prince this mock of his / Hath turn’d his balls to gun-stones […]

   1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]

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   […] I present you here with a merrie conceited Comedie, called the Shoomakers Holyday, acted by my Lorde Admiralls Players this present Christmasse, before the Queenes most excellent Maiestie. For the mirth and pleasant matter, by her Highnesse graciously accepted; being indeede no way offensiue.

   1600, Thomas Dekker, The Shoemaker’s Holiday, London: Dedication

plural pleasants

1. obsoleteA wit; a humorist; a buffoon.

   […] Galba was no better than one of the buffons or pleasants that professe to make folke merry and to laugh.

   1603, Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, commonlie called the Morals written by the learned philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea, London, page 1144

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   1696, uncredited translator, The General History of the Quakers by Gerard Croese, London: John Dunton, Book 2, p. 96, Yea, in the Courts of Kings and Princes, their Fools, and Pleasants, which they kept to relax them from grief and pensiveness, could not show themselves more dexterously ridiculous, than by representing the Quakers, or aping the motions of their mouth, voice, gesture, and countenance:

1. A surname.
2. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Switzerland County, Indiana, United States.
3. A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Pleasant Township.