Word Meanings - SUPERPLEASE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To please exceedingly. B. Jonson.
Related words: (words related to SUPERPLEASE)
- 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 - EXCEEDINGLY
To a very great degree; beyond what is usual; surpassingly. It signifies more than very. - 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.