What's the difference between fun and pleasant?

Fun


Definition:

  • (n.) Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Experts on the red web share their views Read more Earlier this year student Ruslan Starostin posted an image poking fun at Putin on VKontakte.
  • (2) You know, even the second Ghostbusters wasn't as much fun for me as the first one.
  • (3) Although it never really has a sense of fun and burns with ill-focused anger, The Paperboy represents a kind of triumph, surely, even if it's just in getting such high-profile actors to do such low-down deeds.
  • (4) It's certainly fun, cheap and eco-friendly and I would definitely consider it for hops within the UK, but the specific London to Paris car-pooling service is not one I'd like to experience again myself.
  • (5) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
  • (6) In a recent episode of the BBC Radio 4 comedy Alun Cochrane's Fun House , Cochrane joked of how he sleeps better in the living room.
  • (7) Britain’s troubled relationship with the EU has provided Boris Johnson with nothing but fun since he first made his name lampooning the federalist ambitions of Jacques Delors as the Daily Telegraph’s Brussels correspondent in the early 1990s .
  • (8) Oh, and let’s not forget about him doing bad dance moves in a video making fun of Drake’s choreography in the Hotline Bling video.
  • (9) But what was, perhaps, even more fun than a win in the offing was that the desperation of opponents of same-sex marriage leading up to today’s argument in Obergefell v Hodges was palpable.
  • (10) Haki's naivety about English detective fiction is more than matched by Latimer's ingenuous excitement as Haki describes to him Dimitrios's sordid career, and he decides it would be fun to write the gangster's biography.
  • (11) A Cairo heart surgeon inspired by the US news programme The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has captivated Egyptian viewers with a new style of satirical TV show poking fun at politicians on air for the first time.
  • (12) It also intrigues me that the reaction of some women when challenged on this question so uncannily echoes the defence of sexist men in the 60s and 70s: come off it, love, it's just a bit of harmless fun.
  • (13) But there was always a niggling suspicion that the fun couldn’t last – that Tempelhof’s unique status as a hugely valuable piece of land essentially given over to the average picnicking Berliner was too good to be true.
  • (14) Which sounds fun, but not when you’re in fourth grade, doing homework Facebook Twitter Pinterest With his mother, wearing her chemotherapy wig, in New York, 1997.
  • (15) It is a fun place to stay, with pop-art-inspired design, a hairdresser, a photo booth and film nights.
  • (16) It’s all very well for Hopeless to make fun of me saying Brexit means Brexit,” said Hapless, haplessly.
  • (17) Morgan, the Fun Lovin' Criminals frontman who also has a show on Radio 2 , said Laverne had "no idea what I put into my shows.
  • (18) It's probably unfair, though quite good fun, to blame the Queen; people have heard "my husband and I" and perhaps assume "and I" is always right.
  • (19) Yau, an “umbrella soldier” , ran in local district council elections for the first time in November 2015, unsuccessfully challenging the pro-Beijing lawmaker Priscilla Leung Mei-fun to whom she lost by just over 300 votes.
  • (20) At what point am I going to be able to rent a flat and have a record player, so I can listen to other people’s music for a bit?” Living in the Queens Head was fun, but not good for long-term health.

Pleasant


Definition:

  • (a.) Pleasing; grateful to the mind or to the senses; agreeable; as, a pleasant journey; pleasant weather.
  • (a.) Cheerful; enlivening; gay; sprightly; humorous; sportive; as, pleasant company; a pleasant fellow.
  • (n.) A wit; a humorist; a buffoon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facial expression, EEG, and self-report of subjective emotional experience were recorded while subjects individually watched both pleasant and unpleasant films.
  • (2) Subjects also rated the pleasantness of 29 foods listed on a questionnaire.
  • (3) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
  • (4) It is pleasant walking, full of character and constantly changing views.
  • (5) At the end of the experiment, the concentration of salt in soup rated as tasting most pleasant increased in the group which added the crystalline salt to food.
  • (6) Some of the choices involved will not be pleasant ones.
  • (7) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
  • (8) He said Watts was a “pleasant lady” but described Wright as a “cold fish Craig”.
  • (9) Nearby there is a pleasant park with tables and a barbecue.
  • (10) In sensory-specific satiety, the pleasantness of the sight or taste of a food becomes less after it is eaten to satiety, whereas the pleasantness of the sight or taste of other foods which have not been eaten is much less changed; correspondingly, food intake is greater if foods which have not already been eaten to satiety are offered.
  • (11) The house she walks back to, and in which she and her husband, Geoff, live, is pleasantly unexceptional.
  • (12) Patients with Down's syndrome usually have mild and pleasant temperaments, rarely exhibiting temper tantrums or behavioral problems.
  • (13) One month later the subjects underwent a second recognition test, at the end of which they were required to give an evaluation of the pleasantness of each odour on a nine-point scale.
  • (14) The wipes were found to be pleasant and convenient to use.
  • (15) I am always pleasantly amazed by how the city continues to be improved.
  • (16) "The reality is that we've got a situation where the Conservative party is being run almost as if it's an exclusive coterie, and it's an exclusive coterie on the left of centre of the Conservative spectrum, allied with the Liberal Democrats who are, I think, much more pleasant to associate with from their point of view," he said.
  • (17) Branagh, who received his fifth Oscar nomination (all, incidentally, have been in different categories) declared himself "absolutely thrilled", adding: "It was such an enjoyable experience to make, and this is a very pleasant outcome."
  • (18) 205 subjects each chose a "most pleasant" sound delivered through an earphone by turning the control knob on a continuously variable audio oscillator.
  • (19) To determine the contribution of sensory stimulation to the changing hedonic response to foods, the effects of consuming very low-calorie and higher calorie versions of soup and jello on the subjective pleasantness of foods were compared.
  • (20) The motive seemed to be removal from prison to the fairly pleasant surroundings of the local hospital.