Meaning

(ambitransitive) To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to..

Definitions by Sense

1. (ambitransitive) To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.
2. (intransitive, ergative) To desire; to will; to be pleased by.
3. Used to make a polite request.
4. (often with yes) Used as an affirmative to an offer.
5. An expression of annoyance, impatience, or exasperation.
6. (Cincinnati) Said as a request to repeat information.

Example Sentences

Her presentation pleased the executives.

I'm pleased to see you've been behaving yourself.

Our new range of organic foods is sure to please.

And so it had always pleased M. Stutz to expect great things from the dark young man whom he had first seen in his early twenties ; and his expectations had waxed rather than waned on hearing the faint bruit of the love of Ivor and Virginia—for Virginia, M. Stutz thought, would bring fineness to a point in a man like Ivor Marlay, […].

World tour, media whore / "Please the Press in Belgium!" / This was your life

How can an operator be, at the same time, top for overall satisfaction and bottom for value for money? I turned to Anthony Smith for the answer, leaning on his 20 years running Transport Focus and its predecessors. It's commuters, he explained. "You can't please commuters, you can only not displease them."

Just do as you please.

He doesn't think, he just says whatever he pleases.

Word Forms

• pleases
• pleasing
• pleased
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• please
• pleas'd
• pleasest
• pleasedst
• pleaseth
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• pleace
• plaise
• puh-lease

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When Should You Use Please?

Use please when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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