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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pleasant/#m1)

2) A pleasant person is friendly and polite. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pleasant/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pleasant/#x1)
- The weather is pleasant today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pleasant/#x2)
- The roses have a pleasant smell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pleasant/#x3)
- What a pleasant surprise to see you! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pleasant/#x4)
- Our new neighbour is very pleasant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pleasant/#x5)
- The music was soft and pleasant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pleasant/#x6)
- This was, of course, pleasant news. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pleasant/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/5-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers/2/)
- [Chatbots are trained to be pleasant: "Great question!" they say, even when you asked something quite ordinary.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily/0/)
- [«Packing the basket was not quite such pleasant work as unpacking the basket.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/27-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad/36/)
- [Good manners in shared places make them pleasant for everyone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/12/)
- [Smiting upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.672/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pleasant» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pleasant/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.