Prepossessing vs Pleasant - What's the difference?
prepossessing | pleasant | Synonyms |
Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive; as, a prepossessing manner.
*1836 , Dickens, Sketches by Boz ,
*:Our curate is a young gentleman of such prepossessing appearance, and fascinating manners, that within one month after his first appearance in the parish, half the young-lady inhabitants were melancholy with religion, and the other half, desponding with love.
*1852 , H. B. Stowe,
*:These natural graces in the quadroon are often united with beauty of the most dazzling kind, and in almost every case with a personal appearance prepossessing and agreeable.
Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner.
* Bible, Psalms cxxxiii. 1
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Prepossessing is a synonym of pleasant.
As adjectives the difference between prepossessing and pleasant
is that prepossessing is tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive; as, a prepossessing manner while pleasant is giving pleasure; pleasing in manner.As a noun pleasant is
(obsolete) a wit; a humorist; a buffoon.prepossessing
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*pleasant
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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 .}}