pleasurable
/ˈplɛʒ(ə)rəb(ə)l
/adjective
Pleasing; enjoyable: I arrived in a mood of pleasurable anticipation pleasurable activities...
- Taking a walk for exercise, or to walk a dog for that matter, is thus no longer a pleasurable activity.
- Angus, crouching over a keyboard in the corner, waited in pleasurable anticipation for his entry.
- It was a thoroughly enjoyable day and was made all the more pleasurable by the glorious warm sunny weather.
Derivatives
pleasurableness
- To cancel out the pleasurableness, associate something very distasteful with the act.
- And this knowledge of the pleasurableness of the fruit perceived is nothing but the knowledge of its acceptability.
- This objection poses serious difficulties for this view, though perhaps least acutely for the claim that pleasurableness is a feature of experience that cannot be further specified.
pleasurably
/ adverb ...- And no one, except the activists getting pleasurably hysterical over margaritas and mango salsa, gives any credence to claims to the contrary.
- On the side are pleasurably redundant waffle fries.
- They could be at the zoo, or ice-skating at Somerset House, or pleasurably slumped with leftover chocolates in their cosy sitting-rooms.
Origin
Late 16th century: from pleasure, on the pattern of comfortable.