gratifying

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Causing pleasure
agreeable
agreeableness
agreeably
all things to all peopleidiom
attractive
delightfully
distraction
diverting
divertingly
do someone's heart goodidiom
homey
indulgent
indulgently
jovial
jovially
sensuously
serendipitous
sweeten
swooning
swooningly

pleasurable | American Dictionary

pleasurable
adjective
us/ˈpleʒ·ər·ə·bəl/
pleasant:
The hotels were not so good, but on the whole the trip was a pleasurable experience.

Examples of pleasurable

pleasurable
In the no obstacle condition, the final sentence depicted the promisee observing the promiser engaged in some pleasurable, voluntary activity.
All other things have, at most, instrumental value or disvalue based on the role they play in bringing about pleasurable or displeasurable mental states.
Some of the pleasurable aspects of childcare are reflected in fathers' reported desire to spend more time playing with their children.
Collecting the life stories in interviews was found to be pleasurable for the participants, relatives and researchers.
She is openminded, direct, and adventurous, taking life in a playful and pleasurable way.
It is very pleasurable to read and should appeal both to beginners and established yeast researchers.
This did not preclude much pleasurable activity, including piano study, many happy trips, and continuation of an extremely enjoyable professional practice.
After the intervention, the rehabilitation episode became a happy memory, a vacation from everyday living and ' a lift ', but this pleasurable feeling did not last.
Further inspection of the data showed that these scores were contributed by a group who appeared to focus on negative memories rather than pleasurable ones.
Such a person is excluded from all social relationships, and can get none of the comforts that make life pleasurable. 11.
I am conscious of a mixture of pleasurable and painful ideas, both of which are associated with the weather.
It helps make the book a pleasurable read, and worth owning even for someone previously uninterested in its subject.
Sensory hedonism takes the fundamental bearers of positive intrinsic value to be episodes in which a person feels a pleasurable sensation.
Since pride, like the enjoyment of beauty, is pleasurable, these two impressions are associated by similarity.
Yet the passions are the source of pleasure; only when they are loosened from the domination of reason can one experience a pleasurable state.
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