Word Finder - pleasure

definition

A state of being pleased or contented; gratification.

example

He remembered with pleasure his home and family.

synonyms

• delight
• gladness
• gratification
• happiness
• indulgence
• satisfaction

definition

A person, thing or action that causes enjoyment.

example

Having a good night's sleep is one of life's little pleasures.

synonyms

• delight
• joy

definition

One's preference.

example

What is your pleasure: coffee or tea?

synonyms

• desire
• fancy
• want
• will
• wish

definition

The will or desire of someone or some agency in power.

example

at Congress's pleasure: whenever or as long as Congress desires

synonyms

• discretion

definition

To give or afford pleasure to.

synonyms

• gratify
• please

definition

To give sexual pleasure to.

example

Johnny pleasured Jackie orally last night.

definition

To take pleasure; to seek or pursue pleasure.

example

to go pleasuring

definition

Pleased to meet you, "It's my pleasure"

It was a pleasure to meet you.

My pleasure, you need anything else?

Graceful, coordinated and a pleasure to watch.

The Guards had made their whole march as if on a pleasure trip, parading their cleanliness and discipline.

Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to take my friends out rowing when they visit me.

I have never played with words again for the mere pleasure of the game.

Colonel Michaud, do not forget what I say to you here, perhaps we may recall it with pleasure someday...

What pleasure is there to be so caustique?

Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration.

She simply enjoyed their pleasure and tried to fit in with it.

I can never tell you how much pleasure they have given us.

She looked about with pleasure, smiling joyfully.

I remember, yes, I remember you with the standard! said Kutuzov, and a flush of pleasure suffused Prince Andrew's face at this recollection.

I understand pleasure, not happiness.

Deities ate for pleasure, not out of need.

With mournful pleasure she now lingered over these images, repelling with horror only the last one, the picture of his death, which she felt she could not contemplate even in imagination at this still and mystic hour of night.

For some time he engrossed the general attention, and Anna Pavlovna felt that the novelty she had served up was received with pleasure by all her visitors.

She was delighted, and showed her pleasure by hugging and kissing the little fellow, which embarrassed him very much.

She took a pair of pear-shaped ruby earrings from her huge reticule and, having given them to the rosy Natasha, who beamed with the pleasure of her saint's-day fete, turned away at once and addressed herself to Pierre.

The tutors came, and the nurses, and Dmitri, and several acquaintances, and the countess reread the letter each time with fresh pleasure and each time discovered in it fresh proofs of Nikolenka's virtues.

It's a pleasure, sir.

Apart from the advantage he derived from Anatole, the very process of dominating another's will was in itself a pleasure, a habit, and a necessity to Dolokhov.

She closed her eyes and shuddered in pleasure.

What the diplomatic matter might be he did not care, but it gave him great pleasure to prepare a circular, memorandum, or report, skillfully, pointedly, and elegantly.

The whole reason he'd avoided her was because of Wynn's warning – pleasure kills – a reminder that Deidre's tumor was connected to her emotions.

It didn't give her much pleasure to win by default.

When he kissed a hot trail down her neck, she moaned with pleasure.

His arms pressed her closer, his smooth lips seeking hers in ardent pleasure.

She moaned with pleasure.

He has to give up all thoughts of pleasure.

I trust that my readers have not concluded from the preceding chapter on books that reading is my only pleasure; my pleasures and amusements are many and varied.

Added to it was the pleasure of seeing Cynthia, after all she'd undergone, so utterly enjoying the day.

She'd taken great pleasure in stuffing it there.

Even now it was a pleasure to watch him.

A pleasure fair, called the Statute Fair, takes place shortly before Michaelmas.

He kept open house for visitors; he had printers close at hand in Geneva; he fitted up a private theatre in which he could enjoy what was perhaps the greatest pleasure of his whole life - acting in a play of his own, stage-managed by himself.

I am not considering my own pleasure and I won't allow it to be said!

He drank for a long minute then threw his head back, roaring with pleasure.

Just because you sacrificed your virtue for a few moments of pleasure doesn't mean I have tossed aside my innocence.

I've a bet with Leland—a night of unforgettable pleasure for him against a new golf outfit for me.

The past few days had done much to improve Cynthia Byrne and she beamed with pleasure when Dean presented a bottle of wine, the same brand and year they were served at Café Richard.

It was a typical evening – one some people might consider boring, but to him it was pure pleasure.

I'll forego the pleasure and take Carmen's advice.

It was sinful to get so much pleasure out of another person's predicament.

There was no denying the pleasure in his amber eyes as he boldly surveyed her from head to toe.

A large pleasure traffic is maintained by the steamers of the New Palace Company and others in summer between London Bridge and Southend, Clacton and Harwich, Ramsgate, Margate and other resorts of the Kent coast, and Calais and Boulogne.

There is a large passenger traffic, including pleasure trips, principally radiating from Toronto.

S., now in ruins, was a fashionable pleasure resort.

Having thus disposed of the ideas of truth and causality, he proceeds to undermine the ethical criterion, and denies that any man can aim at Good, Pleasure or Happiness as an absolute, concrete ideal.

All actions are product of pleasure and pain, good and evil.