Word Meanings - PLEASING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Giving pleasure or satisfaction; causing agreeable emotion; agreeable; delightful; as, a pleasing prospect; pleasing manners. "Pleasing harmony." Shak. "Pleasing features." Macaulay. -- Pleas"ing*ly, adv. -- Pleas"ing*ness, n. Syn. -- Gratifying;

Additional info about word: PLEASING

Giving pleasure or satisfaction; causing agreeable emotion; agreeable; delightful; as, a pleasing prospect; pleasing manners. "Pleasing harmony." Shak. "Pleasing features." Macaulay. -- Pleas"ing*ly, adv. -- Pleas"ing*ness, n. Syn. -- Gratifying; delightful; agreeable. See Pleasant.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PLEASING)

• Agreeable
• Obliging
• pleasant
• accommodating
• grateful
• acceptable
• welcome
• suitable
• consistent
• consonant
• amiable
• gratifying
• pleasing
• good-natured
• complaisant
• Lovely
• Amiable
• lovable
• enchanting
• beautiful
• delightful
• charming
• Sweet
• Saccharine
• luscious
• fragrant
• dulcet
• melodious
• harmonious
• musical
• lovely
• wholesome
• pure
• mild
• winning
• agreeable
• fresh
• gentle
• Thrilling
• Arousing
• stirring
• exciting
• affecting
• Welcome
• Grateful

Related words: (words related to PLEASING)

• SWEETLY
  In a sweet manner.
• SWEETISH
  Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n.
• ACCEPTABLE
  Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
• BEAUTIFUL
  Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames. Syn. -- Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful;
• SWEETING
  1. A sweet apple. Ascham. 2. A darling; -- a word of endearment. Shak.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• OBLIGABLE
  Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy. The main difference between people seems to be, that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely, -- is obligable; and another is not. Emerson.
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• WINNOW
  comp.), winpi-skauro a fan, L. ventilare to fan, to winnow; cf. L. wannus a fan for winnowing, G. wanne, OHG. wanna. . See Wind moving 1. To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain. Ho winnoweth barley
• SWEETROOT
  Licorice.
• FRESHNESS
  The state of being fresh. The Scots had the advantage both for number and freshness of men. Hayward. And breathe the freshness of the open air. Dryden. Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace. Granville.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• EXCITABLE
  Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
• AMIABLENESS
  The quality of being amiable; amiability.
• OBLIGER
  One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.
• FRESHET
  1. A stream of fresh water. Milton. 2. A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation. Cracked the sky, as ice in rivers When the freshet is at highest. Longfellow.
• EXCITING
  Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story. -- Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv. Exciting causes , those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• PURPURIPAROUS
  Producing, or connected with, a purple-colored secretion; as, the purpuriparous gland of certain gastropods.
• PHILOMUSICAL
  Loving music. Busby.
• SEBIPAROUS
  See SEBIFEROUS
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• INGRATEFUL
  1. Ungrateful; thankless; unappreciative. Milton. He proved extremely false and ingrateful to me. Atterbury. 2. Unpleasing to the sense; distasteful; offensive. He gives . . . no ingrateful food. Milton. -- In"grate`ful*ly, adv. -- In"grate`ful*ness,
• UNHARMONIOUS
  Inharmonious; unsymmetrical; also, unmusical; discordant. Swift. -- Un`har*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv.