Pleasing
['pliːzɪŋ] or ['plizɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of one who pleases.
(adj.) giving pleasure and satisfaction; 'a pleasing piece of news'; 'pleasing in manner and appearance' .
Editor: Rochelle--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Please
(a.) Giving pleasure or satisfaction; causing agreeable emotion; agreeable; delightful; as, a pleasing prospect; pleasing manners.
(n.) An object of pleasure.
Editor: Mamie
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Agreeable, grateful, gratifying, acceptable, welcome, pleasant, delectable, pleasurable, charming, delightful.
Editor: Margaret
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See AGREEABLE]
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Examples
- I have not seen your papa since the receipt of your pleasing letter, so could arrange nothing with him respecting the carriage. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- How very pleasing and proper of him! Jane Austen. Emma.
- But they are very pleasing women when you converse with them. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- This proposal of his, this plan of marrying and continuing at Hartfieldthe more she contemplated it, the more pleasing it became. Jane Austen. Emma.
- His heart tingled with the pleasing conviction that these gross eulogiums shamed Moore deeply, and made him half scorn himself and his work. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Lady Jane and Becky did not get on quite so well at this visit as on occasion of the former one, when the Colonel's wife was bent upon pleasing. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The tint is pleasing, and warms up the landscape. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Each lineament was turned with grace; the whole aspect was pleasing. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is, as the French say, _autant de gagné_, so much added to the pleasure of life. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The pleasing sensation arising from beauty; the bodily appetite for generation; and a generous kindness or good-will. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Thus disposed, she looked her best, and her best was a pleasing vision. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- If, on the other hand, it vibrates in such a way that overtones are present, the tone given forth is full and rich and the sensation is pleasing. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Clerval did not like it so well as Oxford; for the antiquity of the latter city was more pleasing to him. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- In the hope of pleasing everyone, she took everyone's advice, and like the old man and his donkey in the fable suited nobody. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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