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pleasuresome

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English

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Etymology

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From pleasure +‎ -some.

Adjective

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pleasuresome (comparative more pleasuresome, superlative most pleasuresome)

  1. Characterised or marked by pleasure; enjoyable
    • 2003, Shriman Yogi, Shivaji the Great:
      “Do you mean to say all remembrances are vexatitous [sic]? Some are pleasuresome, too, aren't they?”
    • 2012, Herbert M. Lefcourt, Humor: The Psychology of Living Buoyantly:
      The pleasuresome characteristics of jokes that were associated with libidinal sastisfactions [sic] were referred to as a joke's tendentious nature.
    • 2013, Alex Taylor, The Name of the Nearest River:
      Before, he had always seemed to believe revenge a dirty business, all thundering muskets and brandished steel, a pleasuresome stench.