Definition of: pleasant

(plez′ənt) adjective
1. Giving or promoting pleasure; pleasing: agreeable.
2. Conducive to merriment; gay. [<F plaisant <L placens, ppr. of placere please]
—pleas′ant·ly adverb
—pleas′ant·ness noun Synonyms: agreeable, attractive, good–natured, kind, kindly, obliging, pleasing, pleasurable. That is pleasing from which pleasure is received, or may readily be received, without reference to any action or intent in that which confers it; as, a pleasing picture; a pleasing landscape. Whatever has active qualities adapted to give pleasure is pleasant; as, a pleasant breeze; a pleasant (not a pleasing) day. As applied to persons, pleasant always refers to a disposition ready and desirous to please, and in this sense is near akin to kind, but kind refers to act or intent, while pleasant stops with the disposition. Pleasant keeps always something of the sense of actually giving pleasure, and thus surpasses the meaning of good–natured; there are good–natured people who by reason of rudeness and ill–breeding are not pleasant companions. A pleasing face has good features, complexion, expression, etc.; a pleasant face indicates a kind heart and an obliging disposition, as well as kindly feelings in actual exercise. See AGREEABLE, AMIABLE, ATTRACTIVE, COMFORTABLE, DELIGHTFUL, GOOD, VIVACIOUS. Antonyms: arrogant, austere, crabbed, disagreeable, displeasing, dreary, forbidding, gloomy, glum, grim, harsh, hateful, ill–humored, ill–natured, offensive, repellent, repulsive, unkind, unpleasant.