pleasurable
adj/ˈplɛʒəɹəbəl/
Etymology From pleasure + -able.
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That gives pleasure
- The massage was a pleasurable experience.
- c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers Planting of orchards is very […] pleasurable.
4 more examples
- At Rome every Pleasurable Female pays a Julio per Week to the Church […]1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of the Life of Sally Salisbury:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- Derived terms
- nonpleasurable, pleasurability, pleasurableness, pleasurably, unpleasurable