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plesauntly

plesauntly is the obsolete form of pleasantly.

Meaning of pleasantly

Adverb

pleasantly (comparative more pleasantly, superlative most pleasantly)

  1. In a pleasant manner; so as to achieve a pleasant result.
    • He smiled pleasantly at passersby.
  2. (degree) Lightly
  3. (obsolete) Ludicrously; facetiously.
    • In workhouses, pleasantly so named, because work cannot be done in them.1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 1, Midas”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the...

Forms of plesauntly

comparativemore plesauntly
superlativemost plesauntly

Origin of plesauntly

From plesaunt + -ly.

Questions about plesauntly

What is plesauntly the obsolete form of?
Plesauntly is the obsolete form of pleasantly.

Words near plesauntly in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plesauntly (page history and authors); pleasantly (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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