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Pleasant vs Lenitive - What's the difference?

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Pleasant is a related term of lenitive.


As adjectives the difference between pleasant and lenitive

is that pleasant is giving pleasure; pleasing in manner while lenitive is analgesic, able to reduce pain or suffering.

As nouns the difference between pleasant and lenitive

is that pleasant is (obsolete) a wit; a humorist; a buffoon while lenitive is an analgesic or other source of relief from pain.

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!
  • *, chapter=10
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant' as talking; just to watch was ' pleasant .}}

    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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    lenitive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Analgesic, able to reduce pain or suffering.
  • (of a person) Mild; gentle.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An analgesic or other source of relief from pain
  • * {{quote-book, year=1688, author=David Hume, title=The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I, Part E, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=It is now full time to free him from all these necessities, and to apply cordials and lenitives , after those severities which have already had their full course against him. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1825, author=Samuel Johnson, title=The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Upon the whole, as the author seems to share all the common miseries of life, he appears to partake likewise of its lenitives and abatements. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1899, author=Alexander Pope, title=The Iliad of Homer, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Their pain soft arts of pharmacy can ease, Thy breast alone no lenitives appease. }} ----