Plĕas'ant1, a.
(plēz/ant), a. [Fr. plaisant, Pr. plazen, It. piacente. See PLEASE.]
Sense 1. Fitted to please; grateful to the mind or to the senses; agreeable.
How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! Ps. cxxxiii. 1.
Sense 2. Cheerful; enlivening; as, pleasant society or company; gay; lively; humorous; sportive; as, a pleasant fellow; giving pleasure; gratifying.
Sense 3. Trifling; adapted rather to mirth than use.
We had an abundance of pleasant adventures with the wild creatures. De Foe.
Synonyms—Pleasing; gratifying; agreeable; cheerful; good-humored; enlivening; gay; lively; merry; sportive; humorous; jocose; amusing; witty.—PLEASANT, PLEASING, AGREEABLE. Pleasant is more particularly applied to things in the concrete: as, pleasant weather; a pleasant day, ride, situation, &c. A late English writer says, “It was formerly used to describe merry and playful conversation, or a jocose and lively person, but is now in a great measure withdrawn from persons and applied to things.” When we apply pleasing to things, it is usually in their abstract relations; as, a pleasing variety, interchange, &c. In respect to persons, pleasing is generally used to describe personal qualities; as, a pleasing address, countenance, &c. Agreeable is more used of social qualities and relations; as, an agreeable conversation, agreeable society, &c. These distinctions, however, are not in all cases very accurately observed.