Dictionary

pleasurable en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈplɛʒəɹəbəl/

Etymology

Etymology tree English pleasure Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English pleasurable From pleasure + -able.

Meanings

1. That gives pleasure
   • This volume discusses pleasurable design — a part of the traditional usability design and evaluation methodologies. 2014, Yong Gu Ji, Sooshin Choi, Advances in Affective and Pleasurable Design, →ISBN:
   • They love good food, well prepared, truly fresh, and pleasurable. 2011, Jamie Cat Callan, French Women Don't Sleep Alone: Pleasurable Secrets to Finding Love, →ISBN:
   • Happiness is, therefore, a thing most excellent and noble, as well as being most pleasurable […] 1879, Walter Mooney Hatch, Edwin Hatch, The Moral Philosophy of Aristotle:
   • Opiate receptors in human brains allow us to perceive pleasurable stimuli such as sweet tastes. 2006, Jonathan Balcombe, Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good, →ISBN:
   • At Rome every Pleasurable Female pays a Julio per Week to the Church […] 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of the Life of Sally Salisbury:
   • c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers Planting of orchards is very […] pleasurable.
   • Impassioned pleas for pleasurable instruction appeared from the pens of such thinkers as Plato, Sidney, and Dryden, this ideal ultimately becoming one of the acknowledged cornerstones of neoclassical criticism. 1978, Charles Batten, Pleasurable Instruction, →ISBN:
   • The massage was a pleasurable experience.

Forms

Deriveds

unpleasurable · pleasurably · pleasurability · nonpleasurable · pleasurableness

Relateds

please · pleasure

Synonyms

pleasing (giving pleasure) · pleasant (giving pleasure) · nice (giving pleasure)

Translations (17)

pt prazeroso (that gives pleasure) · pl przyjemny (that gives pleasure) · fi miellyttävä (that gives pleasure) · es placentero (that gives pleasure) · gd tlachdmhor (that gives pleasure) · mi whakarekareka (that gives pleasure) · ru прия́тный (that gives pleasure) · ka სასიამოვნო (that gives pleasure) · de angenehm (that gives pleasure) · fr plaisant (that gives pleasure) · fr agréable (that gives pleasure) · eo plezuriga (that gives pleasure) · ja 愉快 (that gives pleasure) · ga pléisiúrtha (that gives pleasure) · be прые́мны (that gives pleasure) · ja 楽しい (that gives pleasure) · uk приє́мний (that gives pleasure)