Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PLEAS'ANT, a. [plez'ant; Fr. plaisant. See Please.]

1. Pleasing; agreeable; grateful to the mind or to the senses; as, a pleasant ride; a pleasant voyage; a pleasant view. Light is pleasant to the eye; an orange is pleasant to the taste; harmony is pleasant to the ear; a rose is pleasant to the smell. How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! – Ps. cxxxiii.
2. Cheerful; enlivening; as, pleasant society or company.
3. Gay; lively; humorous; sportive; as, a pleasant companion.
4. Trifling; adapted rather to mirth than use. – Locke.
5. Giving pleasure; gratifying. This word expresses less than delightful, to the mind, and delicious, to the taste.