Pleasures Synonyms and Antonyms

Gratification
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. wills
  2. revelries
  3. self-indulgences
  4. discretions
Will, inclination
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. likes
  2. funs
  3. wills
  4. hobbies
  5. fancies
  6. games
  7. treats
  8. relishes
  9. joys
  10. jollities
  11. felicities
  12. minds
  13. ecstasies
  14. desires
  15. delights
  16. delicacies
  17. comforts
  18. selections
  19. diversions
  20. recreations
  21. preferences
  22. inclinations
  23. happinesses
  24. gratifications
  25. enjoyments
  26. choices
  27. blisses
  28. amusements
  29. likings
Antonyms:
  1. dislikes
  2. hates
  3. melancholies
  4. pains
  5. glooms
  6. worries
  7. sorrows
  8. troubles
  9. hatreds
  10. sadnesses
A fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. enjoyments
  2. wants
  3. wishes
  4. preferences
Antonyms:
  1. pains
To feel or take joy or pleasure
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. rejoices
  2. joys
  3. exults
  4. delights
To give great or keen pleasure to
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. gladdens
  2. disports
  3. joys
  4. tickles
  5. pleases
  6. gratifies
  7. enchants
  8. delights
  9. cheers

Pleasures Sentence Examples

  • I want to entertain him as far as I can, with all the pleasures of life here.

  • Benjamin's tastes had at first been for the sea rather than the pulpit; now they inclined rather to intellectual than to other pleasures.

  • Its origin is the thirst for being which leads from birth to birth, together with lust and desire, which find gratification here and there; the thirst for pleasures, for being, for power.

  • He puts far greater stress than his predecessors upon the sympathetic pleasures, and thus quite avoids that appearance of mean prudential selfishness that is such a depressing feature in Paley and Bentham.

  • The keynote of this tendency had been struck by Hobbes, in whose philosophy man was regarded as a mere selfish sensitive machine, moved solely by pleasures and pains.

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