pleasure

1. 1.

   a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience

   “he was tingling with pleasure”

   Synonymspleasance

   Antonymspain

   Broaderfeeling

   Narrowerdelightenjoymentpleasantnesscomfortsexual pleasure
2. 2.

   something or someone that provides a source of happiness

   “a joy to behold”

   “the pleasure of his company”

   “the new car is a delight”

   Synonymsjoydelight

   Broaderpositive stimulus
3. 3.

   a formal expression

   “he serves at the pleasure of the President”

   Broaderchoice
4. 4.

   an activity that affords enjoyment

   “he puts duty before pleasure”

   Broaderactivity

   Narrowerluxuriation
5. 5.

   sexual gratification

   “he took his pleasure of her”

   Broadersexual activity

Other forms of pleasure

plural

pleasures·

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 pleasure

What does pleasure mean?

pleasure means "a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pleasure?

pleasure has 2 syllables: pleas-ure. The stress falls on "pleas". In IPA it is /ˈplɛʒɚ/.

What is another word for pleasure?

Close synonyms include pleasance, joy, delight. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of pleasure?

The recorded antonyms are pain.

Is pleasure a common word?

pleasure is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.