pleasant

«pleasant» in Mova's school dictionary: nice, enjoyable or making you feel happy — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (pleasant, more pleasant, most pleasant; also pleasanter, pleasantest)

meaning for a pupil

1) Pleasant means nice, enjoyable or making you feel happy. tree →

2) A pleasant person is friendly and polite. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday talk and writing: pleasant weather, a pleasant day, a pleasant smell. In stories: a pleasant old lady who may hide a secret. Phrases: have a pleasant day, pleasant surprise, pleasant to talk to.

examples

• We had a pleasant walk by the river. tree →
• The weather is pleasant today. tree →
• The roses have a pleasant smell. tree →
• What a pleasant surprise to see you! tree →
• Our new neighbour is very pleasant. tree →
• The music was soft and pleasant. tree →
• This was, of course, pleasant news. tree →

note

Spelling: plea-sant (with ea), pronounced PLEZ-ent. Opposite: unpleasant. Noun: pleasantness; pleasantries are polite small talk. Related: please, pleasure.

In the corpora

• Many chatbots are trained to be helpful and pleasant, and sometimes that tips over into agreeing, praising and inventing.
• Chatbots are trained to be pleasant: "Great question!" they say, even when you asked something quite ordinary.
• «Packing the basket was not quite such pleasant work as unpacking the basket.
• Good manners in shared places make them pleasant for everyone.
• Smiting upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine;

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pleasant» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.