N. pleasure,
gratification, enjoyment,
fruition,
oblectation,
delectation, delection,
relish,
zest,
gusto, satisfaction,
complacency,
well-being, good,
snugness, comfort, ease,
cushion, sans souci, mind at ease, joy,
gladness, delight,
glee,
cheer,
sunshine,
cheerfulness, treat, refreshment,
amusement,
luxury, mens sana in corpore sano, happiness,
felicity,
bliss,
beatitude, beautification,
enchantment, transport,
rapture,
ravishment,
ecstasy, summum bonum,
paradise,
elysium, third heaven|, seventh heaven, cloud nine, unalloyed happiness &c, hedonics, hedonism,
honeymoon, palmy days, halcyon days, golden age, golden time,
dixie, dixie's land, saturnia regna,
arcadia, shangri-la, happy valley, agapemone
V. be pleased, feel pleasure, experience pleasure, joy, enjoy oneself, hug oneself, be in clover, be in elysium, tread on enchanted ground, fall into raptures, go into raptures, feel at home, breathe freely, bask in the sunshine, be pleased with, receive pleasure, derive pleasure, from, take pleasure, in, delight in, rejoice in, indulge in, luxuriate in, gloat over, enjoy,
relish, like, love, take to, take a fancy to, have a liking for, enter into the spirit of, take in good part, treat oneself to, solace oneself with
Adj. pleased, not sorry,
glad,
gladsome, pleased as punch, happy,
blest, blessed,
blissful,
beatified, happy as a clam at high water, happy as a clam, happy as a king, happy as the day is long, thrice happy, ter quaterque beatus, enjoying, joyful,
hedonic, in a blissful state, in paradise, in raptures, in ecstasies, in a transport of delight, comfortable, at ease, content, sans souci, overjoyed, entranced,
enchanted, enraptures,
enravished, transported,
fascinated,
captivated, with a joyful face, with sparkling eyes, pleasing,
ecstatic, beatic, painless,
unalloyed, without alloy, cloudless
Adv. happily, with pleasure, with glee
Phr. one's heart leaping with joy, "a wilderness of sweets", "i wish you all the joy that you can wish", jour de ma vie, "joy ruled the day and love the night", "joys season'd high and tasting strong of guilt", "oh happiness, our being's end and aim!", "there is a pleasure that is born of pain", "throned on highest bliss", vedi napoli e poi muori, zwischen freud und leid ist die brucke nicht weit
N. pleasurableness, pleasantness, agreeableness, pleasure giving,
jucundity, delectability,
amusement, attraction, attractiveness,
attractability,
invitingness,
harm,
fascination,
enchantment,
witchery,
seduction, winning ways,
amenity,
amiability,
winsomeness,
loveliness, sunny side, bright side, sweets, goodness, manna in the wilderness, land flowing with milk and honey,
bittersweet, fair weather, treat,
regale,
dainty,
titbit,
tidbit, nuts, sauce piquante
V. cause pleasure, produce pleasure, create pleasure, give pleasure, afford pleasure, procure pleasure, offer pleasure, present pleasure, yield pleasure, please, charm, delight,
becharm,
imparadise,
gladden, take,
captivate,
fascinate,
enchant, entrance,
enrapture, transport,
bewitch,
enravish,
bless,
beatify, satisfy,
gratify, desire,
&c. 865,
slake,
satiate,
quench,
indulge,
humor,
flatter,
tickle, tickle the palate,
regale, refresh,
enliven, treat,
amuse, take one's fancy, tickle one's fancy, hit one's fancy, meet one's wishes, win the heart, gladden the heart, rejoice the heart, warm the cockles of the heart, do one's heart good,
attract,
allure,
stimulate, interest, make things pleasant,
popularize, gild the pill, sugar-coat the pill,
sweeten Adj. causing pleasure, laetificant, pleasure-giving, pleasing, pleasant, pleasurable, agreeable,
grateful,
gratifying, leef|,
lief, acceptable,
welcome, welcome as the roses in may,
welcomed,
favorite, to one's taste, to one's mind, to one's liking, satisfactory, refreshing, comfortable,
cordial,
genial,
glad,
gladsome, sweet,
delectable, nice,
dainty, delicate,
delicious,
dulcet,
luscious,
palatable,
luxurious,
voluptuous,
sensual, attractive,
inviting, prepossessing,
engaging,
winning,
winsome, taking,
fascinating,
captivating, killing,
seducing,
seductive,
heart-robbing,
alluring,
enticing,
appetizing,
cheering,
bewitching,
enchanting, entrancing,
enravishing, charming, delightful,
felicitous,
exquisite, lovely,
ravishing,
rapturous,
heartfelt,
thrilling,
ecstatic, beatic,
beatific,
seraphic,
empyrean,
elysian,
palmy,
halcyon,
saturnian Phr. decies repetita placebit, "charms strike the sight but merit wins the soul", "sweetness and light", beauty is only skin deep
