Word Meanings - PLEASE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PLEASE)

• Divert
• Alter
• change
• deflect
• alienate
• delight
• please
• gratify
• entertain
• amuse
• Gratify
• Please
• satisfy
• indulge
• humor
• Rejoice
• Delight
• glory
• exult
• joy
• triumph
• gladden
• revel
• be glad
• cheer
• enliven
• Satisfy
• Satiate
• content
• sate
• fill
• suffice
• recompense
• compensate
• remunerate
• indemnify
• assure
• convince
• meet
• fulfil
• Suit Fit
• adapt
• match
• adjust
• harmonize
• apportion
• befit
• beseem
• tally
• correspond
• answer
• comport
• serve
• agree
• become
• accord

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PLEASE)

• Conserve
• retain
• stabilitate
• fix
• clinch
• stand
• endure
• last
• hold

Related words: (words related to PLEASE)

• ASSURER
  1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• HUMOR
  A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin. "A body full of humors." Sir W. Temple. 3. State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids
• CONTENTMENT
  1. The state of being contented or satisfied; content. Contentment without external honor is humility. Grew. Godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Tim. vi. 6. 2. The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice
• CONTENTLY
  In a contented manner.
• BESEEMING
  1. Appearance; look; garb. I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak. 2. Comeliness. Baret.
• ALTERNATING CURRENT
  A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
• TALLYHO
  1. The huntsman's cry to incite or urge on his hounds. 2. A tallyho coach. Tallyho coach, a pleasure coach. See under Coach.
• ALTERNATION
  Permutation. 3. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. Alternation of generation. See under Generation. (more info) 1. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being
• REVELLENT
  Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• ADJUSTIVE
  Tending to adjust.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• MATCHMAKER
  1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
• ACCORDANCY
  Accordance. Paley.
• REVEL
  See REVEAL
• CORRESPOND
  1. To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout. None of them correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds.
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• DISSERVE
  To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm. Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any party. Jer. Taylor. (more info) Etym:
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• GOOD-HUMORED
  Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; good-tempered. See Good- natured.
• ACCIDENTALLY
  In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
• INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
  Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• SUBALTERNANT
  A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2. Whately.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• DESERVEDNESS
  Meritoriousness.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• MISALTER
  To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall.
• ALIMENTALLY
  So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.