Roget's Thesaurus

#827. Pleasure

Nouns

pleasure, gratification, enjoyment, fruition; oblectation, delectation, delection; relish, zest; gusto etc. (physical pleasure) 377; satisfaction etc. (content) 831; complacency. well-being; good etc. 618; snugness, comfort, ease; cushion etc. 215; sans souci [Fr.], without worry, mind at ease. joy, gladness, delight, glee, cheer, sunshine; cheerfulness etc. 836. treat, refreshment; amusement etc. 840; luxury etc. 377. mens sana in corpore sano [Lat.] [Juvenal], a sound mind in a sound body. happiness, felicity, bliss; beatitude, beautification; enchantment, transport, rapture, ravishment, ecstasy; summum bonum [Lat.]; paradise, elysium etc. (heaven) 981; third heaven, seventh heaven, cloud nine; unalloyed happiness etc.; hedonics, hedonism. honeymoon; palmy days, halcyon days; golden age, golden time; Dixie, Dixie's land; Saturnia regna [Lat.], Arcadia, Shangri-La, happy valley, Agapemone.

Verbs

be pleased etc. 829; feel pleasure, experience pleasure etc. n.; joy; enjoy oneself, hug oneself; be in clover etc. 377, be in elysium etc. 981; tread on enchanted ground; fall into raptures, go into raptures. feel at home, breathe freely, bask in the sunshine. be pleased with etc. 829; receive pleasure, derive pleasure etc. n.. from; take pleasure etc. n.. in; delight in, rejoice in, indulge in, luxuriate in; gloat over etc. (physical pleasure) 377; enjoy, relish, like; love etc. 897; 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.

Adjectives

pleased etc. 829; not sorry; glad, gladsome; pleased as Punch. happy, blest, blessed, blissful, beatified; happy as a clam at high water [U.S.], happy as a clam, happy as a king, happy as the day is long; thrice happy, ter quaterque beatus [Lat.]; enjoying etc. v.; joyful etc. (in spirits) 836; hedonic. in a blissful state, in paradise etc. 981, in raptures, in ecstasies, in a transport of delight. comfortable etc. (physical pleasure) 377; at ease; content etc. 831; sans souci [Fr.]. overjoyed, entranced, enchanted; enraptures; enravished; transported; fascinated, captivated. with a joyful face, with sparkling eyes. pleasing etc. 829; ecstatic, beatic; painless, unalloyed, without alloy, cloudless.

Adverbs

happily etc. adj.; with pleasure etc. (willingfully) 602; with glee etc. n..

Phrases

one's heart leaping with joy. a wilderness of sweets [Paradise Lost]; I wish you all the joy that you can wish [M. of Venice]; jour de ma vie; joy ruled the day and love the night [Dryden]; joys season'd high and tasting strong of guilt [Young]; oh happiness, our being's end and aim! [Pope]; there is a pleasure that is born of pain [O Meridith]; throned on highest bliss [Paradise Lost]; vedi Napoli e poi muori [It.]; zwischen Freud und Leid ist die Brucke nicht weit [G.], the bridge between joy and sorrow is not wide.