enjoyable

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English enjoy

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Old French -ablebor.

Middle English -able

English -able

English enjoyable

From enjoy + -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪ.ə.bl̩/, /ɪnˈd͡ʒɔɪ.ə.bl̩/, /ənˈd͡ʒɔɪ.ə.bl̩/

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Adjective

enjoyable (comparative more enjoyable, superlative most enjoyable)

1. Pleasant, capable of giving pleasure.

   That was an enjoyable day; I had a lot of fun.

Synonyms

• beautiful
• glorious

Derived terms

• enjoyability
• enjoyableness
• enjoyably
• unenjoyable

Translations

giving pleasure or delight

• Arabic: مُمْتِع (mumtiʕ)
• Catalan: agradable (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 愉快 (zh) (yúkuài)

• Finnish: kiva (fi), mukava (fi)
• French: agréable (fr), amusant (fr)
• Galician: agradábel (gl) m or f
• German: angenehm (de), unterhaltsam (de), amüsant (de), vergnüglich (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: τερπνός (terpnós)

• Hungarian: élvezetes (hu), kellemes (hu), örömteli (hu)
• Irish: taitneamhach, pléisiúrtha
• Italian: piacevole (it), gradevole (it)
• Japanese: 楽しい (ja) (たのしい, tanoshii)
• Korean: 즐겁다 (ko) (jeulgeopda)
• Latin: iūcundus
• Māori: rekareka, pārekareka, matareka
• Russian: прия́тный (ru) (prijátnyj), заба́вный (ru) (zabávnyj)
• Sanskrit: रम्य (sa) (ramya)
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: zabawny

• Spanish: agradable (es), ameno (es), disfrutable
• Thai: สนุก (th) (sà-nùk)
• Vietnamese: thú vị (vi)
• Welsh: pleserus (cy)