Pleasureful

Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical.

Pleas´ure`ful

Affording pleasure.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

Mentioned in ?

References in periodicals archive ?

As simple and as pleasureful as it was those thousands of years ago on that beautiful planet so far away.

WHO MOURNS FOR ADONAIS? OR WHERE HAVE ALL THE GODS GONE?

Music is not always pleasureful. It can be associated with misery and/or violence.

A useless kind of pleasure?/ Le developpement musical

He lists the pure pleasures as 'those related to colours said to be beautiful, to shapes and smells and sounds, [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (the ones which have imperceptible and painless lacks and which provide perceptible and pleasureful fillings, 51b5-7); the last phrase can be taken to be epexegetical, revealing the entire category of pure pleasures to be preceded by imperceptible and painless lacks.