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pleasantly

adv
/ˈplɛzəntli/

Etymology

From Middle English pleasauntly; equivalent to pleasant + -ly.

  1. inherited from pleasauntly

Definitions

  1. In a pleasant manner

    In a pleasant manner; so as to achieve a pleasant result.

    • He smiled pleasantly at passersby.
    • They were pleasantly surprised at the result.

  2. Lightly

  3. Ludicrously

    Ludicrously; facetiously.

    • In workhouses, pleasantly so named, because work cannot be done in them.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at pleasantly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at pleasantly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at pleasantly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA