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Antonyms for enjoyable


Grammar : Adj
Spell : en-joi-uh-buhl
Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈdʒɔɪ ə bəl



Definition of enjoyable

Origin :
  • 1640s, "capable of being enjoyed," from enjoy + -able. Meaning "affording pleasure" is from 1744. Related: Enjoyably; enjoyableness.
  • adj pleasing; to one's liking
Example sentences :
  • She was not the cook, but she could, and had on occasion, served up a most enjoyable breakfast.
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
  • It is as useful to read him as it is enjoyable to travel with him.
  • Extract from : « Aztec Land » by Maturin M. Ballou
  • All the aspects of rural life can thus be made most enjoyable.
  • Extract from : « Rural Life and the Rural School » by Joseph Kennedy
  • All this would have been enjoyable and fruitful if there had not been a fish within a mile.
  • Extract from : « Tales of Fishes » by Zane Grey
  • Let me only forget the past, and this life can be enjoyable enough.
  • Extract from : « Luttrell Of Arran » by Charles James Lever
  • “I hope you have had an enjoyable afternoon,” said Mr. Newville.
  • Extract from : « Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times » by Charles Carleton Coffin
  • It ought to be enjoyable and a help to sustain the laughter.
  • Extract from : « How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions » by S. S. Curry
  • In effect it was a partie carre and bade fair to be enjoyable.
  • Extract from : « Despair's Last Journey » by David Christie Murray
  • I want them to see for themselves how enjoyable such a life as this is.
  • Extract from : « John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein » by Frank R. Stockton
  • One of the most enjoyable resources of the country hostess is the picnic.
  • Extract from : « The Etiquette of To-day » by Edith B. Ordway

Synonyms for enjoyable

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