pleasing

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpliːzɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈplizɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -iːzɪŋ

From Middle English plesynge, pleizinge, plesende (present participle), equivalent to please +‎ -ing.

pleasing (comparative more pleasing, superlative most pleasing)

1. Agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.
   • 1950 December, H. C. Casserley, “Locomotive Cavalcade, 1920-1950—6”, in Railway Magazine, page 843:

     These two designs were neat and handsome, by modern standards, and very pleasing in appearance.

   • 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, pages 250–251:

     Elegant brick and stone buildings, with iron and glass canopies and decorative wooden scalloping and fencing—all evidencing care on the part of the architect to produce a pleasing, well-planned building—were submerged beneath a profusion of ill-conceived additions and camouflaged by vulgar paint schemes; and the original conception was lost.

• enjoyable
• gratifying
• satisfying

pleasing

1. present participle and gerund of please.

From Middle English plesing, plesinge (“satisfaction; pleasing”), equivalent to please +‎ -ing.

pleasing (countable and uncountable, plural pleasings)

1. pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to someone's pleasing."
   • a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). The Passion of our Blessed Saviour”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:

     What more palpable confutation can there be of human vanity and arrogance, of all lofty imaginations, all presumptuous confidences, all turgid humours, all fond self-pleasings and self-admirings, than is that tragical cross […]

• self-pleasing

• apelings, elapsing, leapings, pealings