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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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irresistible
English
Alternative forms
- irresistable (dated)
Etymology
ir- +? resistible
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?????z?st?bl?/
Adjective
irresistible (comparative more irresistible, superlative most irresistible)
- Impossile to resist.
- Compellingly attractive.
Derived terms
- irresistibility
- irresistibleness
- irresistibly
Translations
Asturian
Adjective
irresistible (epicene, plural irresistibles)
- irresistible
Antonyms
- resistible
Catalan
Etymology
ir- +? resistible
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /i.r?.zis?ti.bl?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /i.re.zis?ti.ble/
Adjective
irresistible (masculine and feminine plural irresistibles)
- irresistible
Antonyms
- resistible
Derived terms
- irresistiblement
Galician
Alternative forms
- irresistíbel
Adjective
irresistible m or f (plural irresistibles)
- irresistible
Antonyms
- resistible, resistíbel
Derived terms
- irresistiblemente
Spanish
Etymology
ir- +? resistible
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /iresis?tible/, [i.re.sis?t?i.??le]
Adjective
irresistible (plural irresistibles)
- irresistible
- Antonym: resistible
Derived terms
- irresistiblemente
Further reading
- “irresistible” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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