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pleasant
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)
- 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.”
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Psalm 133.1,[1]
- (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.
- c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act I, Scene 2,[4]
Synonyms
- agreeable
- nice
Antonyms
- disagreeable
- nasty
- unpleasant
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
pleasant (plural pleasants)
- (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:
- 1603, Philemon Holland (translator), The Philosophie, commonlie called the Morals written by the learned philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea, London, p. 1144,[6]
Anagrams
- planates, platanes
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beaut
English
Etymology
Clipping of beauty.
Pronunciation
- enPR: byo?ot, IPA(key): /bju?t/
- Rhymes: -u?t
- Homophones: butte, Bute, Butte
Noun
beaut (plural beauts)
- (informal) Something or someone that is physically attractive.
- (informal) Something that is a remarkable example of its type.
Synonyms
- (someone that is physically attractive): See Thesaurus:beautiful person
Adjective
beaut
- (dialectal, especially Australia) Beautiful, splendid.
- 1895, Elbridge Kingsley, Frederick Knab, Picturesque Worcester ...: Complete in Three Parts, page 40:
- An' there was posies all round Jim, He had a bran new suit, The first un that he ever had, An' everything was beaut. An' when the preacher told 'bout Jim— How ' twas he got the swipe— I saw most all them dandy swells A feelin' fer a wipe.
- 1968, James Phillip McAuley, Quadrant:
- It was beaut to have him home again, and gee, you should have seen the bike he bought me from Paris. From the same factory as his own was made.
- 1978, Kevin Gilbert, Living Black: Blacks Talk to Kevin Gilbert:
- She was very motherly towards me then and it was beaut. Before I was eighteen, there just wasn't any kind words. All I wanted to do was get away from there.
- 1996, Madeleine St. John, A Pure Clear Light, 4th Estate, Limited
- "Yes, it was beaut.:
- 1895, Elbridge Kingsley, Frederick Knab, Picturesque Worcester ...: Complete in Three Parts, page 40:
Further reading
- 2015, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Routledge (?ISBN), page 135:
Anagrams
- tubae
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