(make cheerful) 836; take, captivate, fascinate; enchant, entrance, enrapture, transport, bewitch; enravish[obs3].
     bless, beatify; satisfy; gratify, desire; &c. 865; slake, satiate,
quench; indulge, humor, flatter, tickle; tickle the palate &c. (savory) 394; regale, refresh; enliven; treat; amuse &c. 840; take one’s fancy, tickle one’s fancy, hit one’s fancy; meet one’s wishes; win the heart, gladden the heart, rejoice the heart, warm the cockles of the heart; do one’s heart good.
     attract, allure &c. (move) 615; stimulate &c. (excite) 824; interest.
     make things pleasant, popularize, gild the pill, sugar-coat the pill,
, sweeten. 
     Adj. causing pleasure &c. v.; laetificant[obs3]; pleasure-giving,
pleasing, pleasant, pleasurable; agreeable; grateful, gratifying; leef|, lief, acceptable; welcome, welcome as the roses in May; welcomed; favorite; to one’s taste, to one’s mind, to one’s liking; satisfactory &c. (good) 648.
     refreshing; comfortable; cordial; genial; glad, gladsome; sweet,
delectable, nice, dainty; delicate, delicious; dulcet; luscious &c. 396; palatable &c. 394; luxurious, voluptuous; sensual &c. 377.
     [of people] attractive &c. 615; inviting, prepossessing, engaging;
winning, winsome; taking, fascinating, captivating, killing; seducing, seductive; heart-robbing, alluring, enticing; appetizing &c. (exciting) 824; cheering &c. 836; bewitching; enchanting, entrancing, enravishing[obs3].
     charming; delightful, felicitous, exquisite; lovely &c. (beautiful)
845; ravishing, rapturous; heartfelt, thrilling, ecstatic; beatic[obs3]; beatific; seraphic; empyrean; elysian &c. (heavenly) 981.
     palmy, halcyon, Saturnian. 
     Phr. decies repetita placebit[Lat]; “charms strike the sight but merit
wins the soul” [Pope]; “sweetness and light” [Swift]; beauty is only skin deep.

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     #830. [Capability of giving pain; cause or source of pain]. 
Painfulness. —­ N. painfulness &c. adj.; trouble, care &c. (pain) 828; trial; affliction, infliction; blow, stroke, burden, load, curse; bitter pill, bitter draught; waters of bitterness.
     annoyance, grievance, nuisance, vexation, mortification,
sickener[obs3]; bore, bother, pother, hot water, “sea of troubles” [Hamlet], hornet’s nest, plague, pest.
     cancer, ulcer, sting, thorn; canker &c. (bane) 663; scorpion &c. (evil
doer) 913; dagger &c. (arms) 727; scourge &c. (instrument of punishment) 975; carking care, canker worm of care.
     mishap, misfortune &c. (adversity) 735; desagrement[Fr],
esclandre[Fr], rub.
     source of irritation, source of annoyance; wound, open sore; sore
subject, skeleton in the closet; thorn in the flesh, thorn in one’s side; where the shoe pinches, gall and wormwood.
     sorry sight, heavy news, provocation; affront &c. 929; “head and front
of one’s offending” [Othello].
     infestation, molestation;