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Seemly vs Pleasant - What's the difference?

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Seemly is a related term of pleasant.


As adjectives the difference between seemly and pleasant

is that seemly is (of behavior) appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming while pleasant is giving pleasure; pleasing in manner.

As an adverb seemly

is appropriately, fittingly.

As a noun pleasant is

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

seemly

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (of behavior) Appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming.
    • His behavior was seemly , as befits a gentleman.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I am a woman, lacking wit / To make a seemly answer to such persons.
  • * Hooker
    • Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies.

    Synonyms

    * apposite

    Antonyms

    * unseemly

    Derived terms

    * * * seemliness

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Appropriately, fittingly.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
    • The great earthes wombe they open to the sky, / And with sad Cypresse seemely it embraue [...].

    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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