pleasant

1. 1.

   affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings

   “we had a pleasant evening together”

   “a pleasant scene”

   “pleasant sensations”

   Antonymsunpleasant

   Similarbeautifuldulcetenjoyablegratefulidyllicpleasing
2. 2.

   (of persons) having pleasing manners or behavior

   “I didn't enjoy it and probably wasn't a pleasant person to be around”

   Similarnice

Other forms of pleasant

comparative

pleasanter·

superlative

pleasantest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pleasant

What does pleasant mean?

pleasant means "affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pleasant?

pleasant has 2 syllables: pleas-ant. The stress falls on "pleas". In IPA it is /ˈplɛzənt/.

What is the opposite of pleasant?

The recorded antonyms are unpleasant.

Is pleasant a common word?

pleasant is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with pleasant?

1 word rhymes with pleasant. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.