Pleasant vs Beneficial - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between pleasant and beneficial

is that pleasant is giving pleasure; pleasing in manner while beneficial is helpful or good to something or someone.

As a noun pleasant

is a wit; a humorist; a buffoon.

pleasant

English

Adjective

(en-adj)

Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner.

* Bible, Psalms cxxxiii. 1

Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

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Synonyms

* nice

Antonyms

* unpleasant

Derived terms

* pleasantly * pleasantness * pleasantry

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A wit; a humorist; a buffoon.

(Webster 1913)

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beneficial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Helpful or good to something or someone.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= A punch in the gut , passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial . It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}