a pleasant remark that you make in order to be polite. When two people exchange pleasantries, they talk to each other politely about unimportant things.
Synonyms and related words
Comments and remarks
acknowledgment
afterthought
allusion
pleasantry
noun countable usually plural
US /ˈplezəntri/
Word Forms
singular
pleasantry
plural
pleasantries
DEFINITIONS1
1
a pleasant remark that you make in order to be polite. When two people exchange pleasantries, they talk to each other politely about unimportant things.