pleasurable

From pleasure + -able.

• IPA^(key): /ˈplɛʒəɹəbəl/

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pleasurable (comparative more pleasurable, superlative most pleasurable)

1. That gives pleasure

   The massage was a pleasurable experience.

   • c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers

     Planting of orchards is very […] pleasurable.

   • 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of the Life of Sally Salisbury:

     At Rome every Pleasurable Female pays a Julio per Week to the Church […]

   • 1879, Walter Mooney Hatch, Edwin Hatch, The Moral Philosophy of Aristotle:

     Happiness is, therefore, a thing most excellent and noble, as well as being most pleasurable […]

   • 1978, Charles Batten, Pleasurable Instruction, →ISBN:

     Impassioned pleas for pleasurable instruction appeared from the pens of such thinkers as Plato, Sidney, and Dryden, this ideal ultimately becoming one of the acknowledged cornerstones of neoclassical criticism.

   • 2006, Jonathan Balcombe, Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good, →ISBN:

     Opiate receptors in human brains allow us to perceive pleasurable stimuli such as sweet tastes.

   • 2011, Jamie Cat Callan, French Women Don't Sleep Alone: Pleasurable Secrets to Finding Love, →ISBN:

     They love good food, well prepared, truly fresh, and pleasurable.

   • 2014, Yong Gu Ji, Sooshin Choi, Advances in Affective and Pleasurable Design, →ISBN:

     This volume discusses pleasurable design — a part of the traditional usability design and evaluation methodologies.

• (giving pleasure): nice, pleasant, pleasing

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