pleasant

adj

1. Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner.

   “We had a pleasant walk around the town.”

   “It wasn't so hot outside, but pleasant enough to have lunch in the garden.”

   “Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!”

   ““I cannot see that London has any great advantage over the country, for my part, except the shops and public places. The country is a vast deal pleasanter, is not it, Mr. Bingley?””

   ““I was only going to say,” said Scrooge’s nephew, “that the consequence of his taking a dislike to us, and not making merry with us, is, as I think, that he loses some pleasant moments, which could do him no harm. I am sure he loses pleasanter companions than he can find in his own thoughts, either in his mouldy old office, or his dusty chambers.”

2. (obsolete)Facetious, joking.

   “[T]ell the pleasant prince this mock of his / Hath turn’d his balls to gun-stones […]”

   “[…] I present you here with a merrie conceited Comedie, called the Shoomakers Holyday, acted by my Lorde Admiralls Players this present Christmasse, before the Queenes most excellent Maiestie. For the mirth and pleasant matter, by her Highnesse graciously accepted; being indeede no way offensiue.”

noun

1. (obsolete)A wit; a humorist; a buffoon.

   “[…] Galba was no better than one of the buffons or pleasants that professe to make folke merry and to laugh.”

   “1696, uncredited translator, The General History of the Quakers by Gerard Croese, London: John Dunton, Book 2, p. 96, Yea, in the Courts of Kings and Princes, their Fools, and Pleasants, which they kept to relax them from grief and pensiveness, could not show themselves more dexterously ridiculous, than by representing the Quakers, or aping the motions of their mouth, voice, gesture, and countenance:”

name

1. A surname.
2. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Switzerland County, Indiana, United States.
3. A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Pleasant Township.