1
as in enjoyable
giving pleasure or contentment to the mind or senses
a pleasurable hot bath after a tiring day
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as in fun
providing amusement or enjoyment
a number of pleasurable additions to the state fair this year
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Recent Examples of pleasurable
For partnered anal penetration, communication is the key to a safer and more pleasurable experience.
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Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 11 Aug. 2025
If the body needs salt, those chips will cause a surge of pleasurable dopamine to flood the brain.
—Dan Samorodnitsky, Quanta Magazine, 11 Aug. 2025
In fact, there is something pleasurable in setting down the burdens of the past.
—Rachel Vorona Cote, The Atlantic, 15 July 2025
The soothing colors of the store provide a pleasurable experience and complement the colors of the changing inventory.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 25 July 2025
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Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 11 Aug. 2025
If the body needs salt, those chips will cause a surge of pleasurable dopamine to flood the brain.
—Dan Samorodnitsky, Quanta Magazine, 11 Aug. 2025
In fact, there is something pleasurable in setting down the burdens of the past.
—Rachel Vorona Cote, The Atlantic, 15 July 2025
The soothing colors of the store provide a pleasurable experience and complement the colors of the changing inventory.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 25 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for pleasurable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pleasurable
Adjective
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Clarksville hosts Blackman in what should be one of the more fun games of Week 1.—
Jacob Shames,
The Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025
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Richard Deitsch has an extremely fun list of the 25 most impactful play-by-play voices of the 21st century.—
Chris Branch,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The 25-year-old is always pleasant and wearing a big smile.—
Jeff Zrebiec,
New York Times,
19 Aug. 2025
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Having visited the dome myself, the clearest impression that stays with me is how Hiroshima isn’t just surprisingly pleasant, but beautiful.—
Ed Simon
August 18,
Literary Hub,
18 Aug. 2025
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Many years have passed, and when the three return home for their mother’s third wedding, each sister is dysfunctional in her own distinct, often amusing way.—
Gracie Wiener,
Air Mail,
16 Aug. 2025
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One of the people who took notice of Sanders' standout performance was Browns general manager Andrew Berry, who congratulated the rookie on his NFL debut and shared an amusing exchange with him in the process.—
Michael Gallagher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Aug. 2025
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Elizabeth and Joyce make for a delightful black-cat, golden-retriever pair, and Ron and Ibrahim bring about hilarious shenanigans of their own.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
30 Aug. 2025
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There was another surprise—the world’s oldest leather shoe—a delightful collateral discovery that underscores the site’s time-capsule quality and why, like Rome, every shovel of soil here now demands forensic attention.—
Layne Randolph,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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This leads us back to the Tall as a Tree and Twice as Shady, a drink on the opening menu of Three Dots and a Dash that’s as good an example as any of McGee’s tiki sensibilities—unexpected and delicious, creative and precise.—
Jason O'Bryan,
Robb Report,
23 Aug. 2025
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These copycat Auntie Anne’s style soft pretzels are fresh, buttery, and just as delicious—minus the mall lines.—
Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The film is filled to the brim with real people and incidents, providing an entertaining primer to explain how a former Communist country was transformed into a cutthroat capitalist regime ruled by an authoritarian modeling himself on Stalin.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Aug. 2025
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The two sides each claimed one win apiece in what has proved to be an entertaining rivalry in recent years.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Since judging the beauty of art is subjective, identifying the most aesthetically pleasing sculptures is difficult, Chidester said, but there are pieces in the collection that have drawn praise from the community.—
Lou Ponsi,
Oc Register,
12 Aug. 2025
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None of this is pleasing to a country that has fought bitter wars with Pakistan, and whose officials have over the past two decades assiduously invested to elevate Indo-U.S. relations to a higher plane.—
Salil Tripathi,
Time,
8 Aug. 2025
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Both Trejo and Crowley rode in the 2025 Centennial Tucson Rodeo, a nice mirroring of the agency’s own 100-year history.—
Suzanne Wright,
USA Today,
21 Aug. 2025
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Even Marty, one of the nicer guys on display in Coen and Cooke’s cockeyed crime movie, hits on Honey with an annoying relentlessness.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Pleasurable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pleasurable. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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