Word Meanings - OVERPLEASE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To please excessively.

Related words: (words related to OVERPLEASE)

• PLEASER
  One who pleases or gratifies.
• PLEASED
  Experiencing pleasure. -- Pleas"ed*ly, adv. -- Pleas"ed*ness, n.
• PLEASEMAN
  An officious person who courts favor servilely; a pickthank. Shak.
• PLEASE
  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
• OVERPLEASE
  To please excessively.
• TIMEPLEASER
  One who complies with prevailing opinions, whatever they may be; a timeserver. Timepleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness. Shak.
• MEN-PLEASER
  One whose motive is to please men or the world, rather than God. Eph. vi. 6.
• DISPLEASER
  One who displeases.
• SUPERPLEASE
  To please exceedingly. B. Jonson.
• DISPLEASEDNESS
  Displeasure. South.
• DISPLEASE
  pref. des- + plaisir to please. See Please, and cf. 1. To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at. It usually expresses less than to anger,
• DISPLEASEDLY
  With displeasure.