Pleasant vs Superb - What's the difference?
pleasant | superb | Related terms |
Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner.
* Bible, Psalms cxxxiii. 1
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, title= First-rate; of the highest quality; exceptionally good.
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*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
Grand; magnificent; august; stately.
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(lb) Haughty.
*1858 , (Julia Kavanagh), Adèle, a Tale: Volume 2 (p.235):
*:A remark which Isabella received with a superb curl of the lip, but at the same time, and to her brother's infinite relief, she walked away.
Pleasant is a related term of superb.
As adjectives the difference between pleasant and superb
is that pleasant is giving pleasure; pleasing in manner while superb is .As a noun pleasant
is (obsolete) a wit; a humorist; a buffoon.pleasant
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
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 .}}