Pleasing

/ˈpliːzɪŋ/ · adjective

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. Agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.
2. present participle and gerund of please.
3. pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to someone's pleasing."

Example Sentences

These two designs were neat and handsome, by modern standards, and very pleasing in appearance.

Elegant brick and stone buildings, with iron and glass canopies and decorative wooden scalloping and fencing—all evidencing care on the part of the architect to produce a pleasing, well-planned building—were submerged beneath a profusion of ill-conceived additions and camouflaged by vulgar paint schemes; and the original conception was lost.

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 […]

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• more pleasing
• most pleasing
• pleasings

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