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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | delight, happiness |
| Synonyms: | amusement, bliss, buzz*, comfort, contentment, delectation, diversion, ease, enjoyment, entertainment, felicity, flash*, fruition, game, gladness, gluttony, gratification, gusto, hobby, indulgence, joie de vivre, joy, joyride, kick*, kicks, luxury, primrose path, recreation, relish, revelry, satisfaction, seasoning, self-indulgence, solace, spice, thrill, titillation, turn-on, velvet*, zest |
| Antonyms: | gloom, melancholy, pain, sadness, sorrow, trouble, unhappiness, worry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pleasure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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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, killing, leef, lepid, lief, lovely, luscious, nice, not sorry, overjoyed, painless, palatable, palmy, pleasant, pleased, pleased as punch, pleasing, pleasurable
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| Main Entry: | pleasure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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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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| Concept: | Pleasure. |
| Category: | 1. Passive Affections |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
pleasure, gratification, enjoyment, fruition; oblection, delection; relish, zest; gusto (physical pleasure); satisfaction (content); complacency., well-being; good; snugness, comfort, ease; cushion; sans souci, mind at ease., joy, gladness, delight, glee, cheer, sunshine; cheerfulness., treat, refreshment; amusement; luxury., 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; feel pleasure, experience pleasure; joy; enjoy oneself; be in clover, 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 with; receive pleasure, derive pleasure from; take pleasure in; delight in, rejoice in, indulge in, luxuriate in; gloat over (physical pleasure); enjoy, relish, like; love; 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; 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); hedonic., in a blissful state, in paradise [more], in raptures, in ectstasies, in a transport of delight., comfortable (physical pleasure); at ease; content; sans souci.
-adverbs
happily; with pleasure (willingfully); with glee n..
-phrases
one's heart leaping with joy.
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| Antonyms: | pain |
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| 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, idolization, liking, love, marveling, obeisance, pleasure, praise, prizing, recognition, regard, reverence, valuing, veneration, wonder, wonderment, worship |
| Antonyms: | aversion, contempt, disapproval, disgust, dislike, disregard, hate, hatred, loathing |
| Main Entry: | amusement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entertaining, making someone laugh |
| Synonyms: | action, ball*, beguilement, cheer, delight, diversion, enjoyment, entertainment, field day, fun, fun and games, gladdening, gratification, grins, high time, hilarity, hoopla*, laughs, laughter, merriment, merry go round, mirth, picnic, play, pleasing, pleasure, regalement, whoopee |
| Antonyms: | boredom |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | comfort |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good feeling; ease |
| Synonyms: | abundance, alleviation, amenity, assuagement, bed of roses, cheer, cheerfulness, complacency, contentment, convenience, coziness, creature comforts, enjoyment, exhilaration, facility, gratification, happiness, luxury, opulence, peacefulness, pleasure, plenty, poise, quiet, relaxation, relief, repose, rest, restfulness, satisfaction, snugness, succor, sufficiency, warmth, well-being |
| Antonyms: | aggravation, annoyance, bother, botheration, distress, exasperation, irritation, torment, torture |
| Main Entry: | content |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | comfort, happiness |
| Synonyms: | contentment, ease, gratification, peace, peace of mind, pleasure, satisfaction |
| Antonyms: | discontent, displeasure, uncomfortableness, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | contentment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | comfort, happiness |
| Synonyms: | complacency, content, contentedness, ease, equanimity, fulfillment, gladness, gratification, peace, pleasure, repletion, satisfaction, serenity |
| Antonyms: | discomfort, discontent, displeasure, dissatisfaction, misery, sadness, unhappiness |
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