[ adj ] affording satisfaction or pleasure <adj.all> the company was enjoyablefound her praise gratifying full of happiness and pleasurable excitement good printing makes a book more pleasurable to read
Pleasurable \Pleas"ur*a*ble\, a. Capable of affording pleasure or satisfaction; gratifying; abounding in pleasantness or pleasantry.
Planting of orchards is very . . . pleasurable. --Bacon.
O, sir, you are very pleasurable. --B. Jonson. ※ -- {Pleas"ur*a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Pleas"ur*a*bly}, adv.
The ride, combined with the smooth engine-five-speed manual transmission performance and low road noise, made for pleasurable traveling up front.
"Much alcohol advertising goes beyond describing specific qualities of the beverage to creating a glamorous, pleasurable image that attract youth," the report said.
A three-hour fete, both puzzling and pleasurable, it unfolded under a cliched photograph of the fat master sporting one of the ill-fitting wigs he favored in his later years.
Maybe I'm a masochist, but I found it an entirely pleasurable experience.
Still, to care when one can choose to stop caring is extremely pleasurable. Hence England's interest in the Irish team.
It will also mark another rise in French unemployment. Meanwhile, Mr Amato's lira has been evicted from the exchange rate mechanism quite as ignominiously as the British pound, but with less pleasurable results.