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| Main Entry: | pleasure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | delight, happiness |
| Synonyms: | amusement, bliss, buzz*, comfort, contentment, diversion, ease, enjoyment, entertainment, felicity, flash*, fruition, game, gladness, gratification, gusto, hobby, indulgence, joie de vivre, joy, kick*, luxury, primrose path*, recreation, relish, revelry, satisfaction, seasoning, self-indulgence, solace, spice, thrill, titillation, velvet*, zest, delectation, gluttony, joyride, kicks, turn-on |
| Antonyms: | gloom, melancholy, pain, sadness, sorrow, trouble, unhappiness, worry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pleasure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | will, inclination |
| Synonyms: | choice, command, desire, fancy, liking, mind, option, preference, purpose, want, wish, velleity |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | pleasure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
killing, palatable, acceptable, agreeable, alluring, anhedonic, apolaustic, appetizing, at ease, attractive, beatic, beatific, beatified, beneplacit, bewitching, blessed, blest, blissful, captivated, captivating, causing pleasure, charming, cheerful, cheering, cloudless, comfortable, conciliatory, content, contented, cordial, dainty, delectable, delicate, delicious, delightful, dulcet, ecstatic, elysian, empyrean, enchanted, enchanting, engaging, enjoying, enraptured, enravished, enravishing, enticing, entranced, entrancing, evancalous, exquisite, fall, fascinating, favorite, felicific, felicitous, gemutlich, genial, glad, gladsome, gled, grateful, gratifying, haimish, halcyon, happy, happy as a king, happy as the day is long, heartfelt, in a blissful state, in a transport of delight, in ecstasies, in paradise, in raptures, inviting, joyful, leef, lepid, lief, lovely, luscious, nice, not sorry, overjoyed, painless, palmy, pleasant, pleased, pleased as punch, pleasing, pleasurable
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| Main Entry: | pleasure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
pleasure, queme, raptured, rapturous, ravished, ravishing, refreshing, resigned, satisfactory, satisfied, saturnian, seducing, sensual, seraphic, serene, suant, suboptimal, sweet, sybaritic, taking, thrice happy, thrilling, to one's liking, to one's mind, to one's taste, tolerable, transported, unafflicted, unalloyed, unmolested, unplagued, unrepining, unvexed, voluptuous, welcome, welcome as the roses in May, welcomed, wilcweme, winning, winsome, with a joyful face, with sparkling eyes, without alloy
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-nouns
pleasure, gratification, enjoyment, fruition; oblection, delection; relish, zest; gusto (physical pleasure) [more]; satisfaction (content) [more]; complacency., well-being; good [more]; snugness, comfort, ease; cushion [more]; sans souci, mind at ease., joy, gladness, delight, glee, cheer, sunshine; cheerfulness [more]., treat, refreshment; amusement [more]; luxury [more]., mens sana in corpore sano [Juvenal]., happiness, felicity, bliss; beatitide, beautification; enchantment, transport, rapture, ravishment, ecstasy; summum bonum; paradise, elysium ( heaven) [more]; third heaven, seventh heaven; unalloyed happiness; hedonics, hedonism., honeymoon; palmy days, halcyon days; golden age, golden time; Dixie, Dixie's land; Saturnia regna, Arcadia, happy valley, Agapemone.
-verbs
be pleased [more]; feel pleasure, experience pleasure; joy; enjoy oneself; be in clover [more], be in elysium [more]; tread on enchanted ground; fall into raptures, go into raptures., feel at home, breathe freely, bask in the sunshine., be pleased [more] with; receive pleasure, derive pleasure from; take pleasure in; delight in, rejoice in, indulge in, luxuriate in; gloat over (physical pleasure) [more]; enjoy, relish, like; love [more]; take to, take a fancy to; have a liking for; enter into the spirit of., take in good part., treat oneself to, solace oneself with.
-adjectives
pleased [more]; not sorry; glad, gladsome; pleased as Punch., happy, blest, blessed, blissful, beatified; happy as a clam at high water [U.S.], happy as a king, happy as the day is long; thrice happy, ter quaterque beatus; enjoying; joyful (in spirits) [more]; hedonic., in a blissful state, in paradise [more], in raptures, in ectstasies, in a transport of delight., comfortable (physical pleasure) [more]; at ease; content [more]; sans souci.
-adverbs
happily; with pleasure (willingfully) [more]; with glee n..
-phrases
one's heart leaping with joy.
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| Antonyms: | pain |
| Main Entry: | admiration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great respect |
| Synonyms: | account, adoration, affection, applause, appreciation, approbation, approval, deference, delight, esteem, estimation, favor, fondness, glorification, homage, honor, idolatry, liking, love, obeisance, pleasure, praise, recognition, regard, reverence, veneration, wonder, wonderment, worship, idolization, marveling, prizing, valuing |
| Antonyms: | aversion, contempt, disapproval, disgust, dislike, disregard, hate, hatred, loathing |
| Main Entry: | contentment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | comfort, happiness |
| Synonyms: | complacency, content, ease, equanimity, fulfillment, gladness, gratification, peace, pleasure, satisfaction, serenity, contentedness, repletion |
| Antonyms: | discomfort, discontent, displeasure, dissatisfaction, misery, sadness, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | delight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enjoyment, happiness |
| Synonyms: | contentment, ecstasy, enchantment, felicity, fruition, gladness, glee, gratification, hilarity, jollity, joy, mirth, pleasure, rapture, relish, satisfaction, transport, delectation, joyance |
| Antonyms: | depression, disappointment, dismay, melancholy, misery, pain, sorrow, trouble, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | delight |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make happy; experience happiness |
| Synonyms: | allure, amuse, attract, charm, cheer, content, divert, enchant, enrapture, entertain, exult, fascinate, freak out, gladden, glory, gratify, groove*, hit the spot*, knock out*, please, pleasure, ravish, rejoice, satisfy, score, send, slay, thrill, turn on, wow, arride, be the ticket, delectate, go over big, jubilate, knock dead, tickle pink, tickle to death |
| Antonyms: | depress, disappoint, dismay, distress, pain, trouble |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | festivity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celebration, revelry |
| Synonyms: | amusement, bash*, blowout*, carousal*, conviviality, do*, entertainment, festival, fun, gaiety, happiness, hilarity, hoopla, jamboree, jollity, levity, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, party, pleasure, revel, shindig*, sport, clambake, fun and games, joviality, joyfulness, reveling, revelment, whoopee, wingding |
| Notes: | a festival is a celebration for a specific occasion; festive means joyous, celebratory, or merry; festivity is any joyous diversion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | free will |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | free choice |
| Synonyms: | assent, choice, conation, consent, desire, determination, discretion, free choice, free decision, freedom, inclination, intention, mind, one's discretion, one's own choice, one's own will, option, own say so, own sweet way, person's full intent and purpose, pleasure, power, say so, velleity, volition, voluntary decision, willingness, wish |
| Antonyms: | responsibility |
| Main Entry: | fruition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | achievement, maturation |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, attainment, completion, consummation, enjoyment, fulfillment, gratification, maturity, perfection, pleasure, realization, satisfaction, success, actualization, materialization, ripeness |
| Antonyms: | failure, unfulfillment |
| Main Entry: | fun |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amusement, play |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, ball*, big time*, blast*, celebration, cheer, distraction, diversion, enjoyment, entertainment, escapade, festivity, frolic, gaiety, gambol, game*, high jinks, holiday, horseplay*, jesting, joke, joking, jollity, joy, laughter, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, nonsense, pastime, picnic*, pleasure, recreation, rejoicing, relaxation, riot, romp, solace, sport, tomfoolery*, treat, buffoonery, clowning, foolery, good time, grins, jocularity, junketing, living it up, playfulness, romping, whoopee |
| Antonyms: | sadness, work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gladness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness |
| Synonyms: | animation, cheer, cheerfulness, delight, felicity, gaiety, glee, hilarity, jollity, joy, mirth, pleasure, blitheness, high spirits, joyousness |
| Antonyms: | sorrow, unhappiness, woe |
| Main Entry: | glee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme happiness |
| Synonyms: | cheerfulness, delight, elation, enjoyment, exhilaration, exuberance, exultation, fun, gaiety, gladness, hilarity, jollity, joy, liveliness, merriment, mirth, pleasure, triumph, verve, blitheness, delectation, jocularity, joviality, joyfulness, joyousness, sprightliness |
| Antonyms: | discouragement, sadness, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | gratification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | satisfaction |
| Synonyms: | delight, enjoyment, fruition, fulfillment, glee, hit, indulgence, joy, luxury, pleasure, recompense, relish, reward, thrill, kicks, regalement, sure shock |
| Antonyms: | disappointment, dissatisfaction, upset |
| Main Entry: | gusto |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great enthusiasm |
| Synonyms: | appetite, appreciation, ardor, delight, enjoyment, exhilaration, fervor, heart, liking, passion, pleasure, relish, savor, taste, verve, zeal, zest, brio, delectation, palate |
| Antonyms: | apathy, reluctance, unenthusiasm |
| Main Entry: | happiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | high spirits, satisfaction |
| Synonyms: | beatitude, blessedness, bliss, cheer, cheerfulness, content, contentment, delight, delirium, ecstasy, elation, enchantment, enjoyment, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, gaiety, geniality, gladness, glee, good humor, hilarity, joy, jubilation, laughter, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth, optimism, paradise, peace of mind, pleasure, prosperity, rejoicing, sanctity, seventh heaven*, vivacity, well-being, cheeriness, delectation, good cheer, good spirits, hopefulness, joviality, playfulness |
| Antonyms: | depression, gloom, misery, pain, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness, woe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | liking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fondness, taste |
| Synonyms: | affection, affinity, appetite, appreciation, attachment, attraction, bent, bias, desire, devotion, fancy, favoritism, inclination, love, mind, partiality, passion, penchant, pleasure, predilection, preference, propensity, relish, soft spot*, stomach, sympathy, tendency, tooth, weakness, will, palate, proneness, velleity |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mirth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great joy |
| Synonyms: | amusement, cheer, cheerfulness, entertainment, festivity, frivolity, frolic, fun, gaiety, gladness, glee, happiness, hilarity, hysteria, jollity, laughter, levity, lightheartedness, merriment, merrymaking, pleasure, rejoicing, revelry, sport, convulsions, hysterics, jocularity, jocundity, joviality, joyousness, kicks, laughs, whoopee |
| Antonyms: | blues, depression, distress, sadness, unhappiness |
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