pleasing

comparative more pleasing · superlative most pleasing

1. Agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.

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

   1950 December, H. C. Casserley, “Locomotive Cavalcade, 1920-1950—6”, in Railway Magazine, page 843

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   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.

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

   Synonyms: enjoyable, gratifying, satisfying, glad

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of please.

plural pleasings

1. countableuncountablepleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to someone's pleasing."

   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 […]

   a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number)”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC