pleasing
Agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.
Adjective
- Agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.
- These two designs were neat and handsome, by modern standards, and very pleasing in appearance. - 1950 December, H. C. Casserley, “Locomotive Cavalcade, 1920-1950—6”, in Railway Magazine, page 843:
- Elegant brick and stone buildings, with iron and glass canopies and decorative wooden scalloping and fencing—all evidencing care on the part of the architect to produce a pleasing, well-planned building—were submerged...
Origin
From Middle English plesynge, pleizinge, plesende (present participle), equivalent to please + -ing.
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pleasance pleasant pleasantly pleasantness please pleasurable pleasurably pleasure
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impleasing pleasing fungus beetle pleasing lacewing pleasingly pleasingness pleasing on the eye pleasing to the eye self-pleasing unpleasing
Noun
- pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to someone's pleasing."
- 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...
Origin
From Middle English plesing, plesinge (“satisfaction; pleasing”), equivalent to please + -ing.
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Verb
- present participle and gerund of please.