Synonyms for pleasurable
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : plezh-er-uh-buh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈplɛʒ ər ə bəl |
Définition of pleasurable
Origin :- 1570s, from pleasure (n.) + -able. Related: Pleasurability; pleasurably. For sense, cf. comfortable.
- adj delightful
- 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
Antonyms for pleasurable
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