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Pleasing
//ˈpliːzɪŋ// adj, noun, verb
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.
"These two designs were neat and handsome, by modern standards, and very pleasing in appearance."
Adjective
- 1 pleasant or agreeable to the senses wordnet
- 2 giving pleasure and satisfaction wordnet
Noun
- 1 pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to someone's pleasing." countable, uncountable
"What more palpable confutation can there be of human vanity and arrogance, of all lofty imaginations, all presumptuous confidences, all turgid humours, all fond self-pleasings and self-admirings, than is that tragical cross […]"
- 2 the act of one who pleases wordnet
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of please. form-of, gerund, participle, present
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English plesynge, pleizinge, plesende (present participle), equivalent to please + -ing.
Etymology 2
From Middle English plesynge, pleizinge, plesende (present participle), equivalent to please + -ing.
Etymology 3
From Middle English plesing, plesinge (“satisfaction; pleasing”), equivalent to please + -ing.
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