Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈpliːzɪŋ/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/ˈplizɪŋ/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
Adjective
Agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.
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These two designs were neat and handsome, by modern standards, and very pleasing in appearance.
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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.
Noun
pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to someone's pleasing."
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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 […]
Adjective
giving pleasure and satisfaction
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a pleasing piece of news
pleasant or agreeable to the senses
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a pleasing aroma
Noun
the act of one who pleases
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