Noah Webster
Pleasant
PLEASANT, adjective plez'ant.
1. Pleasing; agreeable; grateful to the mind or to the senses; as a pleasant ride; a pleasant voyage; a pleasant view. Light is pleasant to the eye; an orange is pleasant to the taste; harmony is pleasant to the ear; a rose is pleasant to the smell.
How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! Psalms 133:1.
2. Cheerful; enlivening; as pleasant society or company.
3. Gay; lively; humorous; sportive; as a pleasant companion.
4. Trifling; adapted rather to mirth than use.
5. Giving pleasure; gratifying.
This word expresses less than delightful, to the mind, and delicious, to the taste.