different between pleasing vs suspicious

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pli?z??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pliz??/
• Rhymes: -i?z??

Etymology 1

From Middle English plesynge, pleizinge, plesende (present participle), equivalent to please +? -ing.

Adjective

pleasing (comparative more pleasing, superlative most pleasing)

1. Agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.

Synonyms

• enjoyable
• gratifying
• satisfying

Derived terms

• pleasing fungus beetle

Related terms

Translations

Verb

pleasing

1. present participle of please.

Etymology 2

From Middle English plesing, plesinge (“satisfaction; pleasing”), equivalent to please +? -ing.

Noun

pleasing (countable and uncountable, plural pleasings)

1. pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing."
   • a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Passion of our Blessed Saviour (sermon)

     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 […]

Anagrams

• apelings, elapsing, leapings, pealings

English

Etymology

From Old French sospecious, from Latin suspiciosus, suspitiosus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??sp?.??s/
• Rhymes: -???s

Adjective

suspicious (comparative more suspicious, superlative most suspicious)

1. Arousing suspicion.

   His suspicious behaviour brought him to the attention of the police.

   • 1957, H. E. Bates, Death of a Huntsman

     If their views were entrancing their sanitation was primeval; if they possessed stables they were also next to the gas-works; if their gardens were delightful there were odours suspicious of mice in the bedrooms.

3. Distrustful or tending to suspect.

   I have a suspicious attitude to get-rich-quick schemes.

4. Expressing suspicion

   She gave me a suspicious look.

Synonyms

• questionable
• doubtful

Derived terms

• non-suspicious, nonsuspicious
• suspiciously
• suspiciousness

Related terms

• suspect
• suspicion
• unsuspecting

Translations

See also

• odd
• strange