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pleasanter

pleasanter is the comparative form of pleasant.

Meaning of pleasant

Adjective

pleasant (comparative more pleasant or pleasanter, superlative most pleasant or pleasantest)

  1. Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner.
    • We had a pleasant walk around the town.
  2. (obsolete) Facetious, joking.
    • [T]ell the pleasant prince this mock of his / Hath turn’d his balls to gun-stones […]1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

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Questions about pleasanter

What is pleasanter the comparative form of?
Pleasanter is the comparative form of pleasant.

Words near pleasanter in the dictionary

  1. Pleasant Island
  2. Pleasant Mound
  3. Pleasant Prairie
  4. Pleasant Valley
  5. pleasantable
  6. pleasanter
  7. pleasantest
  8. pleasantish
  9. pleasantly
  10. pleasantnes
  11. pleasantness

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