Definition of pleasant:

part of speech: adjective

Grateful to the mind or senses; delightful; cheerful; agreeable.

Usage examples:

• One girl did try to be the least bit pleasant with me, but she soon stopped. Pauline Lester in "Marjorie Dean High School Freshman".

• Lingard gave a short, not very pleasant laugh. Marie Belloc Lowndes in "Jane Oglander".

• 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; one is pleasant or in a pleasant mood, when inclined to make happy those with whom he is dealing, to show kindness and do any reasonable favor. In this sense pleasant is nearly akin to kind, but kind refers to act or intent, while pleasant stops with the disposition; many persons are no longer in a pleasant mood if asked to do a troublesome kindness. 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; we can say of one usually good- natured, " on that occasion he did not meet me with a pleasant face." Pleasant in the sense of gay, merry, jocose ( the sense still retained in pleasantry), is now rare, and would not be understood outside of literary circles. Compare AMIABLE; COMFORTABLE; DELIGHTFUL. in "".

• The three days alone with Richard Maule- and with Athena- had been very pleasant Marie Belloc Lowndes in "Jane Oglander".