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Antonyms for pleasurable


Grammar : Adj
Spell : plezh-er-uh-buh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈplɛʒ ər ə bəl



Definition of pleasurable

Origin :
  • 1570s, from pleasure (n.) + -able. Related: Pleasurability; pleasurably. For sense, cf. comfortable.
  • adj delightful
Example sentences :
  • He experienced a feeling of pleasurable excitement and anticipation.
  • Extract from : « The Hound From The North » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • The absence of Anthony was a relief and his visits were pleasurable.
  • Extract from : « Chance » by Joseph Conrad
  • Whence it would seem that the contemplative life is not pleasurable.
  • Extract from : « On Prayer and The Contemplative Life » by St. Thomas Aquinas
  • And the burdensome one is toilsome, while the delightsome one is pleasurable.
  • Extract from : « On Prayer and The Contemplative Life » by St. Thomas Aquinas
  • But Manuel was too wily to yield to a temptation merely because it was pleasurable.
  • Extract from : « Plotting in Pirate Seas » by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
  • It was anything but the pleasurable excitement to which he was accustomed.
  • Extract from : « Adam Johnstone's Son » by F. Marion Crawford
  • The dreamy, pleasurable days at the Villa Ariadne were no more.
  • Extract from : « The Lure of the Mask » by Harold MacGrath
  • Jim took his place with a pleasurable feeling of excitement and interest.
  • Extract from : « Frontier Boys in Frisco » by Wyn Roosevelt
  • In what pleasurable mystery would we live were it not for maps!
  • Extract from : « Journeys to Bagdad » by Charles S. Brooks
  • In an intense and pleasurable abstraction he finished the cookies and the milk.
  • Extract from : « Other Main-Travelled Roads » by Hamlin Garland

Synonyms for pleasurable

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