pleasing
adjectiveverbnounattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈpliːzɪŋ//
- United States//ˈplizɪŋ//
Agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.
adjective
- 1
Agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.
These two designs were neat and handsome, by modern standards, and very pleasing in appearance.
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 beneath a profusion of ill-conceived additions and camouflaged by vulgar paint schemes; and the original conception was lost.
Etymology
From Middle English plesynge, pleizinge, plesende (present participle), equivalent to please + -ing.
verb
- 1
Also a form of pleasepresent participle and gerund of please.
noun
- 1
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 cross […]
Etymology
From Middle English plesing, plesinge (“satisfaction; pleasing”), equivalent to please + -ing.
Forms
- plural
- pleasings
- comparative
- more pleasing
- superlative
- most pleasing
pleasing · Agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.
pleasure · A state of being pleased or contented; gratification.pledge · To make a solemn promise (to do something).pledged · Under the obligation of a promise made.