Pleasurableness — N. pleasurableness, pleasantness, agreeableness &c
adj.; pleasure giving, jucundity†, delectability; amusement &c 840.
attraction &c (motive) 615; attractiveness, attractability†;
invitingness &c adj.†; harm, fascination, enchantment, witchery,
seduction, winning ways, amenity, amiability; winsomeness.
loveliness &c (beauty) 845; sunny side, bright side; sweets &c
(sugar) 396; goodness &c 648; manna in the wilderness, land flowing
with milk and honey; bittersweet; fair weather.
treat; regale &c (physical pleasure) 377; dainty; titbit†, tidbit;
nuts, sauce piquante [Fr.].
V. cause pleasure, produce pleasure, create pleasure, give pleasure,
afford pleasure, procure pleasure, offer pleasure, present pleasure,
yield pleasure &c 827.
please, charm, delight, becharm†, imparadise†; gladden &c (make
cheerful) 836; take, captivate, fascinate; enchant, entrance,
enrapture, transport, bewitch; enravish†.
bless, beatify; satisfy; gratify, desire; &c 865; slake, satiate,
quench; indulge, humor, flatter, tickle; tickle the palate &c (savory)
394; regale, refresh; enliven; treat; amuse &c 840; take one's fancy,
tickle one's fancy, hit one's fancy; meet one's wishes; win the heart,
gladden the heart, rejoice the heart, warm the cockles of the heart; do
one's heart good.
attract, allure &c (move) 615; stimulate &c (excite) 824;
interest.
make things pleasant, popularize, gild the pill, sugar-coat the
pill, sweeten.
Adj. causing pleasure &c v.; laetificant†; pleasure-giving, pleasing,
pleasant, pleasurable; agreeable; grateful, gratifying; leef†, lief,
acceptable; welcome, welcome as the roses in May; welcomed; favorite;
to one's taste, to one's mind, to one's liking; satisfactory &c (good)
648.
refreshing; comfortable; cordial; genial; glad, gladsome; sweet,
delectable, nice, dainty; delicate, delicious; dulcet; luscious &c 396;
palatable &c 394; luxurious, voluptuous; sensual &c 377.
[of people] attractive &c 615; inviting, prepossessing, engaging;
winning, winsome; taking, fascinating, captivating, killing; seducing,
seductive; heart-robbing, alluring, enticing; appetizing &c (exciting)
824; cheering &c 836; bewitching; enchanting, entrancing, enravishing†.
charming; delightful, felicitous, exquisite; lovely &c (beautiful)
845; ravishing, rapturous; heartfelt, thrilling, ecstatic; beatic†;
beatific; seraphic; empyrean; elysian &c (heavenly) 981.
palmy, halcyon, Saturnian.
Phr. decies repetita placebit [Lat.]; charms strike the sight but merit
wins the soul [Pope]; sweetness and light [Swift]; beauty is only skin
deep.