Dictionary Definition
pleasing adj
1 giving pleasure and satisfaction; "a pleasing
piece of news"; "pleasing in manner and appearance" [ant: displeasing]
4 able to please or win approval n : the act of
one who pleases
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
- Agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.
Noun
- Sense of satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing."
Related terms
Verb
pleasing- present participle of please
Extensive Definition
Please may refer to:
- PLEASE, a keyword in the INTERCAL programming language
- Please (album), an album by Pet Shop Boys
- Please (band), a psychedelic rock band
Songs
- "Please", a song by The Apples in Stereo from the album Velocity of Sound
- "Please" (Toni Braxton song), a song by Toni Braxton from the album Libra
- "Please", a song by Lamb from the album Between Darkness and Wonder
- "Please", a song by Nine Inch Nails from the album The Fragile
- "Please", a song by Robin Gibb
- "Please", a song by Ludo
- "Please", a song by Paul Hartnoll from the album The Ideal Condition
- "Please", a song by Chris Isaak from the album Speak of the Devil
- "Please" (U2 song), a song by U2 from the album Pop
- "Please", a song by Jayce Hein released to country radio in March 2007
pleasing in Italian: Please
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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