different between compatible vs pleasant

English

Etymology

from Middle French compatible, from Medieval Latin compatibilis (“in compatible beneficium, a benefice which could be held together with another one”), from Late Latin compati (“to suffer with”)

Pronunciation

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /k?m?pæt?b?l/

Adjective

compatible (comparative more compatible, superlative most compatible)

1. Capable of easy interaction.

2. Able to get along well.

3. Consistent; congruous.

Antonyms

• incompatible
• noncompatible

Hyponyms

Related terms

• compassion
• compatibility

Translations

Noun

compatible (plural compatibles)

1. Something that is compatible with something else.

   a computer company that sells IBM compatibles

Further reading

• compatible in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• compatible in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Asturian

Adjective

compatible (epicene, plural compatibles)

1. compatible (capable of easy interaction)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /kom.p??ti.bl?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kum.p??ti.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kom.pa?ti.ble/

Adjective

compatible (masculine and feminine plural compatibles)

1. compatible

   Antonym: incompatible

Derived terms

• compatibilitat
• incompatible

Further reading

• “compatible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “compatible” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “compatible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “compatible” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.pa.tibl/

Adjective

compatible (plural compatibles)

1. compatible

Antonyms

• incompatible

Derived terms

• compatibilité

Further reading

• “compatible” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Alternative forms

• compatíbel

Adjective

compatible m or f (plural compatibles)

1. compatible

Middle French

Adjective

compatible m or f (plural compatibles)

1. compatible

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (compatible, supplement)

Spanish

Adjective

compatible (plural compatibles)

1. compatible

   Antonym: incompatible

Related terms

• compatibilidad

Further reading

• “compatible” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

Partly from Old French plaisant, partly from Middle English [Term?], present participle of English please. Related to Dutch plezant (“full of fun or pleasure”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pl?z?nt/
• Rhymes: -?z?nt

Adjective

pleasant (comparative pleasanter or more pleasant, superlative pleasantest or most pleasant)

1. Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner.
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Psalm 133.1,^[1]

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

   • 1871, Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, Chapter ,^[2]

     “O Oysters, come and walk with us!”

     The Walrus did beseech.

     “A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk,

     Along the briny beach:

   • 1989, Hilary Mantel, Fludd, New York: Henry Holt, 2000, Chapter 2, p. 25,^[3]

     “ […] If you pray to St. Anne before twelve o’clock on a Wednesday, you’ll get a pleasant surprise before the end of the week.”

2. (obsolete) Facetious, joking.
   • c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act I, Scene 2,^[4]

     […] tell the pleasant prince this mock of his

     Hath turn’d his balls to gun-stones […]

   • 1600, Thomas Dekker, The Shoemaker’s Holiday, London, Dedication,^[5]

     […] 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.

Synonyms

• agreeable
• nice

Antonyms

• disagreeable
• nasty
• unpleasant

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

pleasant (plural pleasants)

1. (obsolete) A wit; a humorist; a buffoon.
   • 1603, Philemon Holland (translator), The Philosophie, commonlie called the Morals written by the learned philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea, London, p. 1144,^[6]

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

   • 1696, uncredited translator, The General History of the Quakers by Gerard Croese, London: John Dunton, Book 2, p. 96,^[7]

     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:

Anagrams

• planates, platanes