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pleasaunt

pleasaunt is the obsolete 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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Forms of pleasaunt

comparativepleasaunter
superlativepleasauntest

Words formed from pleasaunt

Questions about pleasaunt

What is pleasaunt the obsolete form of?
Pleasaunt is the obsolete form of pleasant.

Words near pleasaunt in the dictionary

  1. Pleasants County
  2. pleasantsome
  3. Pleasantville
  4. pleasaunce
  5. pleasaunces
  6. pleasaunt
  7. pleasauntly
  8. please
  9. please clap
  10. please excuse my dear Aunt Sally
  11. please explain

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pleasaunt (page history and authors); pleasant (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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