PLEASURABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pleasurable mean? 

• PLEASURABLE (adjective)
  The adjective PLEASURABLE has 1 sense:

1. affording satisfaction or pleasure

  Familiarity information: PLEASURABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLEASURABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Affording satisfaction or pleasure

Synonyms:

enjoyable; gratifying; pleasurable

Context example:

good printing makes a book more pleasurable to read

Similar:

pleasant (affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings)

 Context examples 

It is impossible to communicate to you a conception of the trembling sensation, half pleasurable and half fearful, with which I am preparing to depart.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

No, reader: gratitude, and many associations, all pleasurable and genial, made his face the object I best liked to see; his presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Just now the possession of this money is a pleasurable thing.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The mu receptors are responsible for opioids’ pleasurable effects and ability to relieve pain.

(Designing more effective opioids, NIH)

This is when eCB levels were at their highest, suggesting that eCBs were driving hedonic, or pleasurable, eating.

(Molecular ties between lack of sleep and weight gain, NIH)

Researchers have found the missing link to how pleasurable things and the circadian system influence one another.

(Neurons That Control Brain's Body Clock Identified, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

When he was rolled on his side he ceased to growl, when the fingers pressed and prodded at the base of his ears the pleasurable sensation increased; and when, with a final rub and scratch, the man left him alone and went away, all fear had died out of White Fang.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Jo knew nothing about philosophy or metaphysics of any sort, but a curious excitement, half pleasurable, half painful, came over her as she listened with a sense of being turned adrift into time and space, like a young balloon out on a holiday.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But now, could I sit still for one half-hour and do nothing, not even think, it would be the most pleasurable thing in the world.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He strove to shelter her, as a fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener, from every rougher wind and to surround her with all that could tend to excite pleasurable emotion in her soft and benevolent mind.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)