Meanings
comparative more pleasurable · superlative most pleasurable
- 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 SalisburyHappiness is, therefore, a thing most excellent and noble, as well as being most pleasurable […]
1879, Walter Mooney Hatch, Edwin Hatch, The Moral Philosophy of AristotleImpassioned 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, →ISBNOpiate 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 & antonyms
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveaffording satisfaction or pleasure
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Esperanto plezuriga
- plezurigathat gives pleasure
Finnish miellyttävä
- miellyttäväthat gives pleasure
French agréable, plaisant
- agréablethat gives pleasure
- plaisantthat gives pleasure
German angenehm
- angenehmthat gives pleasure
Irish pléisiúrtha
- pléisiúrthathat gives pleasure
Japanese 楽しい, 愉快
- 楽しい (tanoshī)that gives pleasure
- 愉快 (yukai)that gives pleasure
Māori whakarekareka
- whakarekarekathat gives pleasure
Polish przyjemny
- przyjemnythat gives pleasure
Portuguese prazeroso
- prazerosothat gives pleasure
Russian прия́тный
- прия́тный (prijátnyj)that gives pleasure
Scottish Gaelic tlachdmhor
- tlachdmhorthat gives pleasure
Spanish placentero
- placenterothat gives pleasure
Ukrainian приє́мний
- приє́мний (pryjémnyj)that gives pleasure
Cite this entry
pleasurable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pleasurable
“pleasurable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pleasurable. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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