adj
Meaning 1
Pleasant, capable of giving pleasure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- That was an enjoyable day; I had a lot of fun.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
enjoyable
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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adjective satellite
Meaning 2
affording satisfaction or pleasure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the company was enjoyable
- found her praise gratifying
- full of happiness and pleasurable excitement
- good printing makes a book more pleasurable to read
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: gratifying, pleasurable
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English enjoy Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dhlom Proto-Indo-European *-dhlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English enjoyable From enjoy + -able.
Across languages
Translations
36 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مُمْتِع (mumtiʕ) — giving pleasure or delight
- Catalan: agradable — giving pleasure or delight
- Chinese Mandarin: 愉快 (yúkuài) — giving pleasure or delight
- Finnish: kiva — giving pleasure or delight
- Finnish: mukava — giving pleasure or delight
- French: agréable — giving pleasure or delight
- French: amusant — giving pleasure or delight
- Galician: agradábel — giving pleasure or delight
- German: angenehm — giving pleasure or delight
- German: unterhaltsam — giving pleasure or delight
- German: amüsant — giving pleasure or delight
- German: vergnüglich — giving pleasure or delight
- Ancient Greek: τερπνός (terpnós) — giving pleasure or delight
- Hungarian: élvezetes — giving pleasure or delight
- Hungarian: kellemes — giving pleasure or delight
- Hungarian: örömteli — giving pleasure or delight
- Irish: taitneamhach — giving pleasure or delight
- Irish: pléisiúrtha — giving pleasure or delight
- Italian: piacevole — giving pleasure or delight
- Italian: gradevole — giving pleasure or delight
- Japanese: 楽しい (tanoshii) — giving pleasure or delight
- Korean: 즐겁다 (jeulgeopda) — giving pleasure or delight
- Latin: iūcundus — giving pleasure or delight
- Māori: rekareka — giving pleasure or delight
- Māori: pārekareka — giving pleasure or delight
- Māori: matareka — giving pleasure or delight
- Russian: прия́тный (prijátnyj) — giving pleasure or delight
- Russian: заба́вный (zabávnyj) — giving pleasure or delight
- Sanskrit: रम्य (ramya) — giving pleasure or delight
- Upper Sorbian: zabawny — giving pleasure or delight
- Spanish: agradable — giving pleasure or delight
- Spanish: ameno — giving pleasure or delight
- Spanish: disfrutable — giving pleasure or delight
- Thai: สนุก (sà-nùk) — giving pleasure or delight
- Vietnamese: thú vị — giving pleasure or delight
- Welsh: pleserus — giving pleasure or delight
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