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pleased
English
Etymology
From Middle English plesed, iplesed (past participle) and Middle English plesede (preterit), both equivalent to please +? -ed.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pli?zd/
Adjective
pleased (comparative more pleased, superlative most pleased)
- happy, content
Synonyms
- content
- happy
- satisfied
Translations
Verb
pleased
- simple past tense and past participle of please
Anagrams
- delapse, elapsed, sepaled
pleased From the web:
- what pleased mean
- what pleased god
- what pleased siddhartha in the garden
- what pleased the yaksha
- what pleased the sun
- what pleased hubert the most
- what pleased valli a lot
- what pleased jesus
pleasure
English
Etymology
From Early Modern English pleasur, plesur, alteration (with ending accommodated to -ure) of Middle English plaisir (“pleasure”), from Old French plesir, plaisir (“to please”), infinitive used as a noun, conjugated form of plaisir or plaire, from Latin place? (“to please, to seem good”), from the Proto-Indo-European *pleh?-k- (“wide and flat”). Related to Dutch plezier (“pleasure, fun”). More at please.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?pl???/
- (General American) enPR: pl?zh??r, IPA(key): /?pl???/
- Rhymes: -???(?)
- Hyphenation: pleas?ure
Noun
pleasure (countable and uncountable, plural pleasures)
- (uncountable) A state of being pleased or contented; gratification.
- Synonyms: delight, gladness, gratification, happiness, indulgence, satisfaction
- Antonyms: displeasure, pain
- (countable) A person, thing or action that causes enjoyment.
- Synonyms: delight, joy
- Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure
- (uncountable) One's preference.
- Synonyms: desire, fancy, want, will, wish
- (formal, uncountable) The will or desire of someone or some agency in power.
- Synonym: discretion
- He will do his pleasure on Babylon.
Derived terms
Translations
Interjection
pleasure
- pleased to meet you, "It's my pleasure"
Verb
pleasure (third-person singular simple present pleasures, present participle pleasuring, simple past and past participle pleasured)
- (transitive) To give or afford pleasure to.
- Synonyms: please, gratify
- (transitive) To give sexual pleasure to.
- (intransitive, dated) To take pleasure; to seek or pursue pleasure.
Translations
Related terms
- displeasure
- please
- pleasant
Further reading
- pleasure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- pleasure in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- serpulae
pleasure From the web:
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- what pleasure do i owe
- what pleasures you
- what pleasures of the senses are mentioned in this chapter
- what pleasure does kissing give
- what pleasure does one gain from the rain
- what pleasure does smoking give
- what pleasures makeup paradise on earth
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