pleasure
Syllables: pleas·ureUK/ˈplɛʒə//ˈplɛʒɚ/
pleasure noun: a state of being pleased or contented; gratification.
Noun
pleasure (countable and uncountable, plural pleasures)
- A state of being pleased or contented; gratification.
- He remembered with pleasure his home and family.
- I get a lot of pleasure from watching others work hard while I relax.
- Synonyms:
- delight, gladness, gratification, happiness, indulgence, satisfaction
- Antonyms:
- displeasure, pain
- A person, thing or action that causes enjoyment.
- It was a pleasure to meet you.
- Having a good night's sleep is one of life's little pleasures.
- Sexual enjoyment.
- One's preference.
- What is your pleasure: coffee or tea?
- The will or desire of someone or some agency in power.
- to hold an office at pleasure: to hold it indefinitely until it is revoked
- to be imprisoned at Her Majesty's pleasure: to be imprisoned indefinitely
- Synonyms:
- discretion
Interjection
- pleased to meet you, "It's my pleasure"
Verb
pleasure (third-person singular simple present pleasures, present participle pleasuring, simple past and past participle pleasured)
- To give or afford pleasure to.
- [H]e / [...] / Had tost his ball and flown his kite, and roll'd / His hoop to pleasure Edith, [...]1864, Alfred Tennyson, “Aylmer’s Field”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 55
- To give sexual pleasure to.
- Johnny pleasured Jackie with his mouth last night.
- In the opening scene, Rupert Campbell-Black (played by Alex Hassell), the gravitational center of Cooper’s world, is seen pleasuring a woman in the bathroom of a Concorde jet, thrusting so vigorously that she hardly notices when the plane goes supersonic.2024 November, Sophie Gilbert, “The Silliest, Sexiest Show of the Year”, in The Atlantic
- To take pleasure; to seek or pursue pleasure.
- to go pleasuring
pleasure meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
pleasure in Hindi
- a state of being pleased
- आनन्द ānand, मज़ा mazā
pleasure in Tamil
- இன்பம்
pleasure in Marathi
- pleasure
- खुशी khuśī
pleasure in Urdu
- a state of being pleased
- آنَنْد ānand, خوشی xośī, عَیش 'aiś, لَذَّت lazzat, مَزَہ maza
More languagesFewer languages
- pleasure in Bengali
- নন্দ nondo
- pleasure in Telugu
- మోదము mōdamu, దయ daya
- pleasure in Malayalam
- രതി rati, വിലാസം vilāsaṁ, നലം nalaṁ
- pleasure in Kannada
- ಸೌಖ್ಯ saukhya
- pleasure in Punjabi
- ਲੁਤਫ਼ luṭf, ਸੁਆਦ suād, ਮਜਾ majā, ਸੁਖ sukh
- pleasure in Gujarati
- આનંદ ānand, જશન jaśan, હાથરસ hāthras
- pleasure in Odia
- ଖୁସି khusi, ଉତ୍ସବ utsaba, ପ୍ରେମ prema
- pleasure in Sanskrit
- आनन्द ānandá
- pleasure in Nepali
- खुसी khusī
- pleasure in Tagalog
- kaaliwan, kalugdan, tuwa
- pleasure in Arabic
- مُتْعَة mutʕa, لَذَّة laḏḏa
- pleasure in Malay
- kesenangan
- pleasure in Indonesian
- kesenangan, kenikmatan
- pleasure in Thai
- ความปิติยินดี kwaam-bpì-dtì-yin-dii, ปิติ bpì-dtì, นนท์ non, ความสุข kwaam-sùk
- pleasure in Vietnamese
- niềm vui thích
Examples of pleasure in a sentence
- at Congress's pleasure: whenever or as long as Congress desires
- But the only statistic that will concern West Brom will be the scoreline, and their manager Roy Hodgson will take considerable pleasure from a victory over the club he managed for just 191 days.2012 April 22, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
- Maximize all the pleasure / Even with all this weather / Nothing can make it better / Maximize all the pleasure2019, Toro y Moi, “Ordinary Pleasure”, in Outer Peace:
- Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 25:9:
- Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company...
Synonyms of pleasure
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Antonyms
Forms of pleasure
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | pleasures |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | pleasures |
| present participle | pleasuring |
| past participle | pleasured |
| past | pleasured |
Origin of pleasure
From Early Modern English pleasur, plesur, alteration (with ending accommodated to -ure) of Middle English plaisir (“pleasure”), from Old French plesir, plaisir (“to please”), infinitive used as a noun, conjugated form of plaisir or plaire, from Latin placeō (“to please, to seem good”), from the Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-k- (“wide and flat”). Related to Dutch plezier (“pleasure, fun”). More at please.
Words formed from pleasure
- antipleasure
- at Her Majesty's pleasure
- at His Majesty's pleasure
- at one's pleasure
- at pleasure
- business before pleasure
- do someone a pleasure
- do someone the pleasure of
- during Her Majesty's pleasure
- during His Majesty's pleasure
- during one's pleasure
- during pleasure
- end-pleasure
- English pleasure
- fore-pleasure
- forepleasure
- gold-of-pleasure
- gold of pleasure
- gold-pleasure
- guilty pleasure
- have the pleasure
- it's a pleasure
- lady of pleasure
- live at Her Majesty's pleasure
- man of pleasure
- manually pleasure
- mix business with pleasure
- my pleasure
- oral pleasure
- pleasurable
- pleasurance
- pleasure barge
- pleasure boat
- pleasurebot
- pleasure-carriage
- pleasure center
- pleasure centre
- pleasure craft
- pleasure cruise
- pleasure curve
- pleasured
- pleasure dome
- pleasuredome
- pleasuredrome
- pleasureful
- pleasure gap
- pleasure garden
- pleasure-giving
- pleasure ground
- pleasurehood
- pleasure house
- pleasureless
- pleasure-loving
- pleasurement
- pleasure moment
- pleasuremonger
- pleasure of someone's company
- pleasure-pain principle
- pleasure palace
- pleasure principle
Phrases with pleasure
- pleasure trip
- take pleasure
- with pleasure
- pleasure boats
- pleasure domes
- Pleasure Point
- pleasure trips
- pleasure houses
- pleasure seeker
- had the pleasure
- has the pleasure
- pleasure centers
20 more phrasesFewer phrases
- pleasure centres
- pleasure cruises
- pleasure gardens
- pleasure grounds
- pleasure oneself
- pleasure palaces
- pleasure seekers
- western pleasure
- Parson's Pleasure
- ladies of pleasure
- having the pleasure
- what's your pleasure
- the pleasure is all mine
- mixed business with pleasure
- mixes business with pleasure
- mixing business with pleasure
- to what do I owe the pleasure
- lived at Her Majesty's pleasure
- lives at Her Majesty's pleasure
- living at Her Majesty's pleasure
Words that rhyme with pleasure
Questions about pleasure
- What does pleasure mean?
- Pleasure means a state of being pleased or contented; gratification.
- What is pleasure in Hindi?
- Pleasure in Hindi is आनन्द (ānand), मज़ा (mazā). See Pleasure meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use pleasure in a sentence?
- at Congress's pleasure: whenever or as long as Congress desires
- What part of speech is pleasure?
- Pleasure can be a noun, an interjection or a verb.
- How do you pronounce pleasure?
- Pleasure is pronounced /ˈplɛʒə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of pleasure?
- The plural of pleasure is pleasures.
Words near pleasure in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pleasure (page history and authors); pleasure (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); खुशी (Marathi) (page history and authors); దయ (Telugu) (page history and authors); നലം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ಸೌಖ್ಯ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ਮਜਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); આનંદ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ଉତ୍ସବ (Odia) (page history and authors); खुसी (Nepali) (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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