Adjacent Words

Pleased definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PLE'ASED, pp. Gratified; affected with agreeable sensations or emotions.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: experiencing or manifesting pleasure [ant: displeased]
2: feeling pleasurable satisfaction over something by which you measures your self-worth; "proud of their child" [syn: pleased, proud of]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Please Please, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pleased; p. pr. & vb. n. Pleasing.] [OE. plesen, OF. plaisir, fr. L. placere, akin to placare to reconcile. Cf. Complacent, Placable, Placid, Plea, Plead, Pleasure.] 1. To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy. I pray to God that it may plesen you. --Chaucer. What next I bring shall please thee, be assured. --Milton. 2. To have or take pleasure in; hence, to choose; to wish; to desire; to will. Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he. --Ps. cxxxv. 6. A man doing as he wills, and doing as he pleases, are the same things in common speech. --J. Edwards. 3. To be the will or pleasure of; to seem good to; -- used impersonally. ``It pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell.'' --Col. i. 19. To-morrow, may it please you. --Shak. To be pleased in or with, to have complacency in; to take pleasure in. To be pleased to do a thing, to take pleasure in doing it; to have the will to do it; to think proper to do it. --Dryden.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pleased Pleased, a. Experiencing pleasure. -- Pleas"ed*ly, adv. -- Pleas"ed*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If you are pleased, you are happy about something or satisfied with something. Felicity seemed pleased at the suggestion... I think he's going to be pleased that we identified the real problems... They're pleased to be going home... He glanced at her with a pleased smile. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, usu ADJ prep/that/to-inf 2. If you say you will be pleased to do something, you are saying in a polite way that you are willing to do it. We will be pleased to answer any questions you may have... = happy ADJ: v-link ADJ to-inf [politeness] 3. You can tell someone that you are pleased with something they have done in order to express your approval. I'm pleased with the way things have been going... I am very pleased about the result... We are pleased that the problems have been resolved... We were very pleased to hear this encouraging news. = happy ADJ: v-link ADJ, usu ADJ prep/that/to-inf [feelings] 4. When you are about to give someone some news which you know will please them, you can say that you are pleased to tell them the news or that they will be pleased to hear it. I'm pleased to say that he is now doing well... = happy ADJ: v-link ADJ to-inf 5. In official letters, people often say they will be pleased to do something, as a polite way of introducing what they are going to do or inviting people to do something. We will be pleased to delete the charge from the original invoice... ADJ: v-link ADJ to-inf [politeness] 6. If someone seems very satisfied with something they have done, you can say that they are pleased with themselves, especially if you think they are more satisfied than they should be. He was pleased with himself for having remembered her name... PHRASE: v-link PHR, PHR with cl 7. You can say 'Pleased to meet you' as a polite way of greeting someone who you are meeting for the first time. CONVENTION [formulae]

Moby Thesaurus

accepting, at ease, charmed, chuffed, comfortable, composed, content, contented, cozy, delighted, easy, easygoing, eupeptic, euphoric, exhilarated, favorably impressed with, glad, gladsome, gratified, happy, in clover, in seventh heaven, intrigued, of good comfort, on cloud nine, pleased as Punch, pleased with, reconciled, resigned, sans souci, satisfied, sold on, taken with, thrilled, tickled, tickled pink, tickled to death, uncomplaining, unrepining, without care