Pleasing \Pleas"ing\, a.
Giving pleasure or satisfaction; causing agreeable emotion;
agreeable; delightful; as, a pleasing prospect; pleasing
manners. "Pleasing harmony." --Shak. "Pleasing features."
--Macaulay. --
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Please \Please\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pleased; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pleasing.] [OE. plesen, OF. plaisir, fr. L. placere, akin
to placare to reconcile. Cf. Complacent, Placable,
Placid, Plea, Plead, Pleasure.]
1. To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or
emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to
satisfy.
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I pray to God that it may plesen you. --Chaucer.
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What next I bring shall please thee, be assured.
--Milton.
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2. To have or take pleasure in; hence, to choose; to wish; to
desire; to will.
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Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he. --Ps.
cxxxv. 6.
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A man doing as he wills, and doing as he pleases,
are the same things in common speech. --J. Edwards.
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3. To be the will or pleasure of; to seem good to; -- used
impersonally. "It pleased the Father that in him should
all fullness dwell." --Col. i. 19.
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To-morrow, may it please you. --Shak.
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To be pleased in or To be pleased with, to have
complacency in; to take pleasure in.
To be pleased to do a thing, to take pleasure in doing it;
to have the will to do it; to think proper to do it.
--Dryden.
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Pleasing \Pleas"ing\, n.
An object of pleasure. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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pleasing
adj 1: giving pleasure and satisfaction; "a pleasing piece of
news"; "pleasing in manner and appearance" [ant: displeasing]
2: aesthetically pleasing; "an artistic flower arrangement"
[syn: aesthetic, esthetic, artistic]
3: giving pleasure or satisfaction [syn: appreciated, gratifying,
satisfying]
4: able to please or win approval
n : the act of one who pleases
WordNet (r) 2.0
162 Moby Thesaurus words for "pleasing":
Attic, Junoesque, acceptable, adorable, aesthetic, affable,
agreeable, ambrosial, amiable, amicable, amply endowed, appetizing,
artistic, attractive, becoming, blissful, bonny, braw, built,
built for comfort, buxom, callipygian, callipygous, chaste,
cheerful, choice, classic, coddling, comely, compatible,
complaisant, congenial, cordial, cosseting, curvaceous, curvy,
dainty, darling, delectable, delicate, delicious, delightful,
desirable, dulcet, easy, elegant, en rapport, enchanting,
enjoyable, enviable, excellent, exciting, exquisite, facile, fair,
fair and pleasant, favorable, favoring, felicific, felicitous,
fine, flowing, fluent, genial, goddess-like, good, good to eat,
good-looking, good-mannered, good-tasting, goodly, graceful,
gracious, grateful, gratification, gratifying, gustable, gusty,
harmonious, heart-warming, honeyed, humoring, in good taste,
indulgence, juicy, likable, likely, lovable, lovely to behold,
luscious, lush, mellifluous, mellow, mollycoddling, mouth-watering,
nectareous, nectarous, nice, obliging, of choice,
of gourmet quality, of quality, overindulgence, overpermissiveness,
palatable, pampering, permissiveness, personable, pleasant,
pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, pneumatic, presentable,
provocative, pure, quiet, restrained, rewarding, sapid,
satisfactory, satisfying, savorous, savory, scrumptious, seductive,
shapely, sightly, simple, slender, smooth, spoiling, stacked,
statuesque, subdued, succulent, suitable, sweet, taking,
tantalizing, tasteful, tasty, tempting, to be desired, toothsome,
tripping, unaffected, understated, unobjectionable, unobtrusive,
welcome, well-built, well-chosen, well-favored, well-formed,
well-made, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked, winning,
worth having, yummy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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