different between pleasant vs sociable
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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sociable
English
Etymology
From Middle French sociable, from Latin sociabilis.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?so???b?l/
Adjective
sociable (comparative more sociable, superlative most sociable)
- (of a person) Tending to socialize or be social
- Synonyms: friendly, inviting, congenial
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline
- Society is no comfort to one not sociable.
- Offering opportunities for conversation; characterized by much conversation.
- (archaic) Capable of being, or fit to be, united in one body or company; associable.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- They are sociable parts united into one body.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- (obsolete) No longer hostile; friendly.
- Is the King sociable And bids thee live ?
Antonyms
- (tending to socialize): unsociable
Derived terms
- sociability
- sociableness
Translations
Noun
sociable (plural sociables)
- A sociable person.
- (historical) A four-wheeled open carriage with seats facing each other.
- A bicycle or tricycle for two persons side by side.
- A couch with a curved S-shaped back.
- (US) An informal party or church meeting for purposes of socializing.
- 1903, George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son (page 46)
- At the church sociables he used to hop around among them, chipping and chirping like a dicky-bird picking up seed; and he was a great hand to play the piano, and sing saddish, sweetish songs to them.
- 1903, George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son (page 46)
Asturian
Adjective
sociable (epicene, plural sociables)
- sociable
Catalan
Adjective
sociable (masculine and feminine plural sociables)
- sociable
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
sociable (plural sociables)
- sociable
Galician
Alternative forms
- sociábel
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?.??ja.ble/, [s??.??ja.?le?]
Adjective
sociable m or f (plural sociables)
- sociable
Antonyms
- insociable
Spanish
Adjective
sociable (plural sociables)
- sociable
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