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PLEASED
pleased
(adjective) experiencing or manifesting pleasure
pleased, proud of
(adjective) feeling pleasurable satisfaction over something by which you measures your self-worth; “proud of their child”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
pleased (comparative more pleased, superlative most pleased)
happy, content
Synonyms
• content
• happy
• satisfied
Verb
pleased
simple past tense and past participle of please
Anagrams
• delapse, elapsed, sepaled
Source: Wiktionary
Pleased, a.
Definition: Experiencing pleasure.
– Pleas"ed*ly, adv.
– Pleas"ed*ness, n.
PLEASE
Please, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pleased; p. pr. & vb. n. Pleasing.] Etym: [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.
Please, v. i.
1. To afford or impart pleasure; to excite agreeable emotions. What pleasing scemed, for her now pleases more. Milton. For we that live to please, must please to live. Johnson.
2. To have pleasure; to be willing, as a matter of affording pleasure or showing favor; to vouchsafe; to consent. Heavenly stranger, please to taste These bounties. Milton. That he would please 8give me my liberty. Swift.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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