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Synonyms for pleasantly
Synonyms for pleasantly: agreeably and cheerily. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for pleasantly
- agreeablyadverb, in the sense "in an enjoyable manner"
- cheerilyadverb, in the sense "in a good-humoured manner"
All two are filed under pleasantly's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.
in an enjoyable manner
We spent a pleasantly lazy afternoon.
The true synonym
agreeably
Same sentence, swapped: We spent a agreeably lazy afternoon.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for pleasantly in the sentence quoted.
- unpleasantly
- warmly
- heartily
in a good-humoured manner
'I'll do the dishes,' he said pleasantly.
The true synonym
cheerily
Same sentence, swapped: 'I'll do the dishes,' he said cheerily.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- warmly
- heartily
- graciously
Where pleasantly turns up in the game
pleasantly is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 5, Summit. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where pleasantly is the trap
- graciouslyadverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is gracefully, in the sense "in a gracious or graceful manner", so pleasantly is there to be ruled out.
Play pleasantly
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so pleasantly reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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pleasantly carries no theme tag, so the ring starts at Summit and widens alphabetically.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. pleasantly carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.