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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Please \Please\, verb (used with an object) [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 {To be pleased 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pleasing \Pleas"ing\, adjective Giving pleasure or satisfaction; causing agreeable emotion; agreeable; delightful; as, a pleasing prospect; pleasing manners. ''Pleasing harmony.'' --Shak. ''Pleasing features.'' --Macaulay. -- {Pleas"ing*ly}, adverb -- {Pleas"ing*ness}, noun
Syn: Gratifying; delightful; agreeable. See {Pleasant}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pleasing \Pleas"ing\, noun An object of pleasure. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pleasing
adjective
1: giving pleasure and satisfaction; "a pleasing piece of news"; "pleasing in manner and appearance" [ant: {displeasing}]
2: aesthetically pleasing; "an artistic flower arrangement" [syn: {aesthetic}, {esthetic}, {artistic}]
3: giving pleasure or satisfaction [syn: {appreciated}, {gratifying}, {satisfying}]
4: able to please or win approval
noun: the act of one who pleases
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
162 Moby Thesaurus words for "pleasing": Attic, Junoesque, acceptable, adorable, aesthetic, affable, agreeable, ambrosial, amiable, amicable, amply endowed, appetizing, artistic, attractive, becoming, blissful, bonny, braw, built, built for comfort, buxom, callipygian, callipygous, chaste, cheerful, choice, classic, coddling, comely, compatible, complaisant, congenial, cordial, cosseting, curvaceous, curvy, dainty, darling, delectable, delicate, delicious, delightful, desirable, dulcet, easy, elegant, en rapport, enchanting, enjoyable, enviable, excellent, exciting, exquisite, facile, fair, fair and pleasant, favorable, favoring, felicific, felicitous, fine, flowing, fluent, genial, goddess-like, good, good to eat, good-looking, good-mannered, good-tasting, goodly, graceful, gracious, grateful, gratification, gratifying, gustable, gusty, harmonious, heart-warming, honeyed, humoring, in good taste, indulgence, juicy, likable, likely, lovable, lovely to behold, luscious, lush, mellifluous, mellow, mollycoddling, mouth-watering, nectareous, nectarous, nice, obliging, of choice, of gourmet quality, of quality, overindulgence, overpermissiveness, palatable, pampering, permissiveness, personable, pleasant, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, pneumatic, presentable, provocative, pure, quiet, restrained, rewarding, sapid, satisfactory, satisfying, savorous, savory, scrumptious, seductive, shapely, sightly, simple, slender, smooth, spoiling, stacked, statuesque, subdued, succulent, suitable, sweet, taking, tantalizing, tasteful, tasty, tempting, to be desired, toothsome, tripping, unaffected, understated, unobjectionable, unobtrusive, welcome, well-built, well-chosen, well-favored, well-formed, well-made, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked, winning, worth having, yummy
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