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[ adjective ] affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings

Examples

"a pleasant person to be around" "we had a pleasant evening together" "a pleasant scene" "pleasant sensations"

Used in print

(The Christian Science Monitor,...)

The Percussive Twenties ( SP 44006 ) stirs pleasant memories with well-known songs of that day , and Johnny_Keating 's Kombo gives_forth with tingling jazz in Percussive_Moods ( SP 44005 ) .

(High Fidelity, 11:10...)

The home listener is overpowered , all_right , but the experience is a far from pleasant one .

(Christopher Davis, First Family....)

Teachers - men who wore brown suits and had gray hair and pleasant smiles - came to their table to talk_shop and to be introduced to Scotty and Rachel .

(Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)

Mickie had a pleasant glow as he said , `` You see , both of them , I mean the President and Jeff_Lawrence , are romantics .

Jane nodded with a pleasant smile .

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[ adjective ] pleasant in manner or behavior

Examples

"I didn`t enjoy it and probably wasn't a pleasant person to be around"

Used in print

(John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)

All she did was write me a pleasant little note about how it was beautiful while it lasted but that now life had parted our ways and it was goodbye forever .

Related terms

nice

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 4122
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