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English
Etymology
From pleasure + -able.
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Adjective
pleasurable (comparative more pleasurable, superlative most pleasurable)
- That gives pleasure
- The massage was a pleasurable experience.
- c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
- Planting of orchards is very pleasurable.
1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of the Life of Sally Salisbury:At Rome every Pleasurable Female pays a Julio per Week to the Church […]
1879, Walter Mooney Hatch, Edwin Hatch, The Moral Philosophy of Aristotle:Happiness is, therefore, a thing most excellent and noble, as well as being most pleasurable […]
1978, Charles Batten, Pleasurable Instruction, →ISBN:Impassioned pleas for pleasurable instruction appeared from the pens of such thinkers as Plato, Sidney, and Dryden, this ideal ultimately becoming one of the acknowledged cornerstones of neoclassical criticism.
2006, Jonathan Balcombe, Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good, →ISBN:Opiate receptors in human brains allow us to perceive pleasurable stimuli such as sweet tastes.
2011, Jamie Cat Callan, French Women Don't Sleep Alone: Pleasurable Secrets to Finding Love, →ISBN:They love good food, well prepared, truly fresh, and pleasurable.
2014, Yong Gu Ji, Sooshin Choi, Advances in Affective and Pleasurable Design, →ISBN:This volume discusses pleasurable design — a part of the traditional usability design and evaluation methodologies.
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