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pleasantry

Syllables: pleas·ant·ry/ˈplɛzəntɹi/

pleasantry noun: a casual, courteous remark.

Noun

pleasantry (countable and uncountable, plural pleasantries)

  1. (proscribed, sometimes) A casual, courteous remark.
  2. A playful remark; a jest.
    • Charlie Mulgrew could easily have been shown two yellow cards by a stricter referee and amid all the usual Anglo-Scottish pleasantries, the two sets of fans put an awful lot of effort into trying to drown out one another’s national anthems.2014 November 18, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian
  3. (dated) Anything that promotes pleasure or merriment.
    • C.O.O: "The office was quite close to the home of our youth—"
      CHRM: "Thomas, your trip to Suitopia was not meant to be for pleasantries."
      C.O.O: "No… I know… But I was close by, so I went to visit them…"
      CHRM: "You should not have. You and I both know the way they are."(Can we date this quote?), Toontown: Corporate Clash Development Team, Transcription Excerpt

pleasantry meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

pleasantry in Hindi

pleasantry
परिहास parihās

pleasantry in Urdu

pleasantry
ٹھٹھا ṭhaṭṭhā

pleasantry in Malayalam

badinage, banter, polite remark
കുശലം, കുശലപ്രശ്നം, വിശ്രംഭം, കുശലോക്തി, സരസസംഭാ ഷണം, കളാലാപം
witticism, joke, quip
നേരമ്പോക്ക്, ഫലിതം, തമാശ, പരിഹാസം, പരിഹാസപ്രയോഗം, കളിതമാശ്

pleasantry in Kannada

ಇಂಪು

Examples of pleasantry in a sentence

  • I wish he would dispense with the pleasantries and get to the point.
  • You can see the Arabs mood change to pleasantry as soon as the "TREE" sighting is made.
  • First comes the “pool spray,” where the two leaders exchange pleasantries before the cameras.

All 11 example sentences with pleasantry

Forms of pleasantry

pluralpleasantries

Origin of pleasantry

From pleasant + -ry, probably modelled on Middle French plaisanterie.

Words formed from pleasantry

Questions about pleasantry

What does pleasantry mean?
Pleasantry means a casual, courteous remark.
What is pleasantry in Hindi?
Pleasantry in Hindi is परिहास (parihās). See Pleasantry meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is pleasantry?
Pleasantry is a noun.
How do you pronounce pleasantry?
Pleasantry is pronounced /ˈplɛzəntɹi/.
What is the plural of pleasantry?
The plural of pleasantry is pleasantries.

Words near pleasantry in the dictionary

  1. pleasantness
  2. pleasantnesse
  3. pleasantnesses
  4. Pleasanton
  5. pleasantries
  6. pleasantry
  7. pleasants
  8. Pleasants County
  9. pleasantsome
  10. Pleasantville
  11. pleasaunce

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pleasantry (page history and authors); परिहास (Hindi) (page history and authors); ٹھٹھا (Urdu) (page history and authors); pleasantry (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); pleasantry (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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