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plesaunt

plesaunt 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 plesaunt

comparativeplesaunter
superlativeplesauntest

Words formed from plesaunt

Questions about plesaunt

What is plesaunt the obsolete form of?
Plesaunt is the obsolete form of pleasant.

Words near plesaunt in the dictionary

  1. plerophoria
  2. plerophories
  3. plerophory
  4. plerotic
  5. Plesac
  6. plesaunt
  7. plesauntly
  8. Plescia
  9. Plescias
  10. Pleshey
  11. plesiadapid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plesaunt (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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