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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Giving pleasure or enjoyment; agreeable.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Pleasure given or afforded; pleasurable or pleasure-giving quality; gratification; charm.
  2. n. Satisfaction; approbation.
  3. n. A matter of pleasure.
  4. Giving pleasure or satisfaction; agreeable to the senses or to the mind; gratifying: as, a pleasing prospect; a, pleasing reflection; pleasing manners.
  5. Synonyms Agreeable, Congenial, etc. See pleasant.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.
  2. n. Sense of satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing."
  3. v. present participle of please.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Giving pleasure or satisfaction; causing agreeable emotion; agreeable; delightful.
  2. n. obsolete An object of pleasure.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. giving pleasure and satisfaction
  2. n. the act of one who pleases

Examples

  • “Your success in the field of your especial ambition will be assured if you win your first chance there by making an _initial_ pleasing impression and then _keep right on pleasing_.”

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  • “The president held a meeting behind closed doors with the ANC provincial executive in East London, which he described as pleasing and interesting.”

    ANC Daily News Briefing

  • “Equally pleasing is the news that Mori is currently at work on another series, Otoyomegatari, which takes place along the Silk Road trade routes.”

    License request day: Otoyomegatari

  • “He was more interested in pleasing all of the people and all of the corporate donors all the time, than in getting the job done.”

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  • “He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day.”

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  • “I have a sneaky suspicion that Lifetime pulled strings to make winners out of the designers that specialize in pleasing, ready-to-wear stuff that their female audience could picture themselves wearing.”

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  • “Her intellect is not in pleasing any politician, her mission is to serve the people fairly.”

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  • “The administration is a strong proponent of these reforms, but the challenge lies in pleasing the CBO — which finds savings by following Potter Stewart rule life: “I know it when I see it.””

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  • “Wherefore, seeing I am an old man and look not long to live, I mind not by the help of God to trouble my conscience in pleasing the king this way whatsoever become of me, but rather here to spend out the remnant of my old days in praying to God for him. posted by John at 2: 08 PM”

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  • “By the way, after 10 years, I have never been successful in pleasing my mother-in-law yet.”

    The First Year At Home

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synonyms (4)

Words with the same meaning

  1. delightful
  1. agreeable
  1. pleasant
  1. gratifying

equivalents (11)

Other words for ‘pleasing’

  1. delightful
  2. admirable
  1. good
  2. delicious
  1. gratifying
  2. charming
  1. sweet
  2. easy
  1. ingratiating
  2. fab
  1. fabulous

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. gratification

rhymes (8)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. appeasing
  1. easing
  1. freezing
  1. seizing
  1. sneezing
  1. squeezing
  1. teasing
  1. wheezing

reverse dictionary (220)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. mellifluous
  2. beautiful
  3. arrident
  4. pleasant
  5. pleasing
  6. euphony
  7. well-pleasing
  8. sightly
  9. pretty
  10. relish
  11. specious
  12. yummy
  13. adorn
  14. beauty
  15. grace
  16. gratification
  17. pleasantness
  18. fine-looking
  19. flattery
  20. felicitousness
  21. felicity
  22. matching
  23. fab
  24. euphonic
  25. euphonious
  26. intermede
  27. lovely
  28. emotion
  29. entertaining
  30. dreamworld
  31. elegant
  32. divertimento
  33. lief
  34. liefsome
  35. likely
  36. liking
  37. on liking
  38. delectable
  39. delightful
  40. delightsome
  41. desirable
  42. ill-proportioned
  43. lever
  44. comely
  1. coordinated
  2. hope
  3. circean
  4. canny
  5. charming
  6. chime
  7. goodly
  8. good-natured
  9. grateful
  10. gratifying
  11. good-like
  12. grolieresque
  13. taking
  14. takingness
  15. unacceptable
  16. unattractive
  17. undraped
  18. unmusical
  19. unpleasantly
  20. unpleasive
  21. unwelcome
  22. winsome
  23. better-looking
  24. gladsome
  25. melodiousness
  26. misplease
  27. oblectation
  28. palative
  29. pleasingly
  30. pleasingness
  31. pleasurable
  32. prettily
  33. sapidity
  34. savorily
  35. savoriness
  36. savorly
  37. self-pleasing
  38. shapely
  39. sightliness
  40. groovy
  41. homograph
  42. attractive
  43. handsome
  44. archness
  1. beauteously
  2. blarney
  3. complaisant
  4. delectability
  5. delice
  6. diverting
  7. dolce far niente
  8. elegantemente
  9. engaging
  10. goodliness
  11. gossipy
  12. gratefully
  13. gratefulness
  14. gratifyingly
  15. leeze
  16. luscious
  17. consonance
  18. cunning
  19. dulcet
  20. euphonize
  21. eyeful
  22. fabulous
  23. tasteful
  24. tasty
  25. amusing
  26. likable
  27. unpleasant
  28. prepossessing
  29. morsel
  30. melodious
  31. seemly
  32. uncongenial
  33. palate
  34. simpatico
  35. ingratiating
  36. silken
  37. scenic
  38. personable
  39. jim-dandy
  40. good-looking
  41. ear candy
  42. sapid
  43. unpalatable
  44. acceptable
  1. agreeable
  2. agreeableness
  3. ambrosia
  4. amiable
  5. amuse
  6. delicate
  7. fair
  8. fragrance
  9. toothsome
  10. tuneful
  11. tuneless
  12. unmelodious
  13. unsavory
  14. unsavoury
  15. unshapely
  16. untuneful
  17. well-endowed
  18. well-favored
  19. well-favoured
  20. well-proportioned
  21. well-turned
  22. becoming
  23. eye candy
  24. like
  25. melody
  26. list
  27. coordinate
  28. lyric
  29. good
  30. picturesqueness
  31. pleasant-smelling
  32. pleasant-tasting
  33. please
  34. pleaser
  35. scrumptious
  36. shapelessness
  37. softly
  38. sonsie
  39. sonsy
  40. stacked
  41. sweet
  42. sweet-faced
  43. well
  44. agree
  1. atmosphere
  2. balm
  3. charm
  4. delicious
  5. delicacy
  6. disposal
  7. favorable
  8. trim
  9. gracious
  10. nice
  11. look
  12. showy
  13. harmony
  14. grand
  15. jolly
  16. harmonic
  17. lush
  18. perfume
  19. peach
  20. music
  21. aesthetics
  22. leggiadrous
  23. viewly
  24. curvaceous
  25. curvy
  26. displeasing
  27. distasteful
  28. dreamland
  29. full-bosomed
  30. gainly
  31. honeyed
  32. hothouse
  33. indoor garden
  34. mellisonant
  35. mellow
  36. mellowed
  37. mellowness
  38. melodic
  39. meretricious
  40. mouth-watering
  41. musical
  42. nectarous
  43. never-never land
  44. pall

tagging (4)

Words tagged ‘pleasing’

  1. arrident
  1. beautiful
  1. mellifluous
  1. quemely

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