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ENJOYABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does enjoyable mean?
• ENJOYABLE (adjective)
The adjective ENJOYABLE has 1 sense:
1. affording satisfaction or pleasure
Familiarity information: ENJOYABLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Affording satisfaction or pleasure
Synonyms:
enjoyable; gratifying; pleasurable
Context example:
good printing makes a book more pleasurable to read
Similar:
pleasant (affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings)
Derivation:
enjoyableness (pleasantness resulting from something that can be enjoyed)
Context examples
Venus is touring your third house of travel and almost guarantees an enjoyable, short trip taken at any time of the month.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
So ended my country trip, and it must be confessed that, however enjoyable, my day on the Surrey border has not been much more profitable than your own.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
All of which served to make White Fang's days enjoyable.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
This was a pleasure which perhaps the whole day's visit might not afford, which certainly did not belong to the present half-hour; but the very sight of Mrs. Weston, her smile, her touch, her voice was grateful to Emma, and she determined to think as little as possible of Mr. Elton's oddities, or of any thing else unpleasant, and enjoy all that was enjoyable to the utmost.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
This should be an enjoyable period.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Also, he stood less in fear of them than formerly, stalking among them with a certain careless ease that was as new to him as it was enjoyable.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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