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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pleasing \pleas"ing\, a.
   giving pleasure or satisfaction; causing agreeable emotion;
   agreeable; delightful; as, a pleasing prospect; pleasing
   manners. "pleasing harmony." --shak. "pleasing features."
   --macaulay. -- pleas"ingly, adv. -- pleas"ingness, n.
   1913 webster

   syn: gratifying; delightful; agreeable. see pleasant.
        1913 webster
see also:
pleas"ingly pleas"ingness pleasant 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
please \please\, v. t. 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.
      1913 webster

            i pray to god that it may plesen you. --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            what next i bring shall please thee, be assured.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. to have or take pleasure in; hence, to choose; to wish; to
      desire; to will.
      1913 webster

            whatsoever the lord pleased, that did he. --ps.
                                                  cxxxv. 6.
      1913 webster

            a man doing as he wills, and doing as he pleases,
            are the same things in common speech. --j. edwards.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            to-morrow, may it please you.         --shak.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
pleased pleasing complacent placable placid plea 
plead pleasure to be pleased in to be pleased with to be pleased to do a thing 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pleasing \pleas"ing\, n.
   an object of pleasure. obs. --chaucer.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
pleasing
     adj 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
     n : the act of one who pleases
see also:
displeasing aesthetic esthetic artistic appreciated gratifying 
satisfying 
[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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