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Meaning pleasure meaning

What does pleasure mean?
Definitions in simple English

pleasure Noun

— Pleasure is a nice feeling we have when we do something that's fun or that feels good. Being at this party and seeing my friends again is a real pleasure.

pleasure

— noun a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience he was tingling with pleasure — noun (= joy, delight) something or someone that provides a source of happiness a joy to behold the pleasure of his company the new car is a delight — noun a formal expression he serves at the pleasure of the President — noun an activity that affords enjoyment he puts duty before pleasure — noun sexual gratification he took his pleasure of her

Synonyms pleasure synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as pleasure?

pleasure English » English

delight joy enjoyment happiness amusement fun satisfaction gratification entertainment gladness desire delectation comfort bliss sport pastime diversion recreation contentment will ease play wish rapture luxury taste pleasance merriment felicity distraction treat relish rejoicing mirth gratify glee gaiety complacence wacky volition spree sportive relaxation queer peculiar lust liking kick jollification inclination

Topics pleasure topics

What do people use pleasure to talk about?
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Like, love

Enjoy doing something
Language and thought Emotion Feel good

Happy
Person Sense, perceive

Sense of touch
Language and thought Emotion Feel good

Like, love

Conjugation pleasure conjugation

How do you conjugate pleasure?

pleasure · verb

Examples pleasure examples

How do I use pleasure in a sentence?

Simple sentences

When we are away from home, nothing gives us more pleasure than to receive a parcel from home.
Labor is not merely a necessity but a pleasure.
It was a pleasure to spend the evening with a smart, funny and beautiful girl like you.
Tom seized an unsecured bus at night and he took a ride for pleasure with it until early morning.
Tom said that he was doing that work for pleasure, not for money.
It is a great pleasure being with you.
Short pleasure, long repentance.
It's our pleasure.
Pleasure is the source of pain.
Few things give us as much pleasure as music.
Music affords us much pleasure.
Some people derive pleasure from watching horror movies.
Bob derives pleasure from observing insects.
That gives me great pleasure.
The trip gave us no end of pleasure.
The lonely man derives pleasure from observing ants.
You will derive great pleasure from this book.
It is a great pleasure to be here.
I'll do it with pleasure.
There is more pleasure in loving than in being loved.
It is a pleasure to watch a baseball game on TV.
I'll help you with pleasure if you want me to.
Some people write books for money, others for pleasure.
Did you go abroad for pleasure or on business?

Movie subtitles

It is my pleasure to introduce to you.
It's been a pleasure.
I blew that pleasure on my 16th birthday.
Every woman's guilty pleasure.
Pleasure.
Love and sensual pleasure.
I find it outrageous that the King is settling affairs of state while in the pleasure quarters of his Mistress.
I will get her. It would be my personal pleasure!
I will therefore no longer stand in the way of your pleasure.
Out of the night came the Little Fellow, towards the dancehall, that beacon light of pleasure, that retreat of lost dreams.
But there's no need for you to lose this pleasure because of me.
And high above, a pleasure garden for the sons of the masters of Metropolis.
I now take great pleasure in presenting to you. the well-preserved and partially pickled Mrs. Potter.
Now, friends, I want to take great pleasure in presenting to you. the groom Mr. Yates, Mr. Harvey Yates.
Want to show me around? - With pleasure.
Pleasure presented itself to you, there you avoided it, trembling and cowardly.
It's a date! It would be a pleasure, but I really can't, because of my wife.
What a pleasure! I'm so glad.
Have I the pleasure of addressing Colonel Wilburforce Buckshot?
Nothing would give me greater pleasure.
With pleasure.
It's a great pleasure.
With pleasure, Mr. Thorpe.
I didn't anticipate this pleasure so soon.
Yes, sir. With pleasure.
It's a great pleasure to meet you, Count.
It's a pleasure to see you again, Doctor.
I find it unacceptable that the King performs the affairs of state here in the pleasure palace of his mistress.
I am going to get her myself. It is a pleasure that I cannot let anyone else have!
Be a pleasure to go to the front in boots like these.
Pleasure's mine.
Well, pleasure was all mine, boys. Heh-heh.
But pleasure is brief in this world, my sweet. and yours is most uncertain. because you don't know when I'll be back.
You forget I have not the pleasure of your acquaintance.
It is a pleasure to chat with a European.
Drink to who gives pleasure.
OH, I ASSURE YOU, BEING HERE IS NO PLEASURE.

News and current affairs

Infantile or not, there is a common human craving for taking vicarious pleasure in the lives of kings, queens, and other shining stars.
There are times when being proven right brings no pleasure.
First, heavy TV viewing brings little pleasure.
In a sense, John Paul II accepted Poland as it is with the hope that people will find more pleasure in democracy and in the free market when they love each other.
Most homeowners are not gambling for pleasure.
Indeed, at its institutional core, the UN is an inter-governmental body whose officials, from the most junior staffer to the Secretary General, serve at the pleasure of its member states - above all, its powerful member states.
Yet I have to admit that I still could not suppress a tiny, keenly felt pleasure when Germany lost to Spain.
Instead of rejoicing in the liberal order, those of us who have the pleasure of living under it have had to struggle to keep it intact and strong.
Indeed, human travel in general should become increasingly limited to tourism and pleasure trips.
Purchases of second homes for pleasure were confined to the rich, and thus did not seem quite so much of a conversation topic for the rank-and-file business people that I meet at such conferences.
Right now, we want to lose weight and we are rationally convinced that this is more important than the pleasure we will get from that extra slice of cake.
The pleasure appears to be derived from the suffering the United States is enduring after four years of efforts to stabilize Iraq.
Humans will continue to push against our existing boundaries, whether out of necessity, curiosity, pleasure, or greed, so more virus jumps will undoubtedly occur.
My pleasure, said President Jiang.
It is difficult not to take some private pleasure in this comeuppance for the Masters of the Universe.
When we do, they feel like a guilty pleasure.
One important question is whether we see happiness as the surplus of pleasure over pain experienced over a lifetime, or as the degree to which we are satisfied with our lives.
Indeed, the war against the arts and humanities in the US coincided with the emergence of an increasingly ignorant and passive population and a government that serves at the pleasure of corporate interests.
But, for some men, part of the pleasure of buying sex may be the humiliation conferred on the woman involved.
They are spreading the news that, for the first time in history, people can quit smoking without giving up the pleasure they derive from nicotine.
All kinds of people use drugs for all kinds of reasons: to relieve pain or experience pleasure, to escape reality or enhance their perception of it.
Of course, the tools that scientists are using - from advanced imaging to examine the brain's pleasure centers to microeconomic happiness equations - are not proven in this area.

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