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Pleasant vs Well-behaved - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between pleasant and well-behaved

is that pleasant is giving pleasure; pleasing in manner while well-behaved is having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour.

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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  • , 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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    well-behaved

    Adjective

  • (of a person or animal) Having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour;
  • :The boy is well behaved and is seldom naughty.
  • (mathematics) Having intuitive, easy to handle properties. Especially:
  • (mathematics) (of a function ) Having a finite derivative (of all orders) at all points, and having no discontinuities
  • Synonyms

    * well-mannered * seemly

    Antonyms

    * ill behaved * (mathematics) pathological