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Definition: Hard To Please |
Hard To PleaseAdjective1. Of persons; "his father was a hard-to-please taskmaster"; "was very hard to please". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Hard To PleaseSynonyms: hard to please(p) (adj), hard-to-please(a) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fastidiousness | Adjective: fastidious, nice, delicate, delicat, finical, finicky, demanding, meticulous, exacting, strict, anal, difficult, dainty, lickerish, squeamish, thin-skinned; squeasy, queasy; hard to please, difficult to please; querulous, particular, straitlaced, scrupulous; censorious; hypercritical; overcritical. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hard To Please |
| English words defined with "hard to please": fastidious. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hard to please": Critic ♦ Soot, Sugar. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | That's very hard to please (Welcome To The Jungle; performing artist: Guns N' Roses) As much as we's floss, still hard to please boss (#1; performing artist: Nelly) I was so hard to please (Hazy Shade Of Winter; performing artist: The Bangles) You always try so hard to please me (Carrie (Moles/Marshall); performing artist: The Hollies) You don't try very hard to please me (THE LAST TIME; performing artist: The Rolling Stones) | |
Movie/TV Titles | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Author | Quotation |
Sir William Temple | Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Japanese consumers are hard to please. (references) | |
It says that Japanese consumers are hard to please. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him. There is a land of pure delight, Beyond the Jordan's flood, Where saints, apparelled all in white, Fling back the critic's mud. And as he legs it through the skies, His pelt a sable hue, He sorrows sore to recognize The missiles that he threw. Orrin Goof |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expressions using "hard to please": be hard to please ♦ he is hard to please. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "hard to please"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Czech | dá se mu tìžko vyhovìt (he is hard to please). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | exigeant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nehéz a kedvére tenni (ill to please, to be hard to please), nehéz a kedvében járni. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | rewel (fret, persnickety, unreasonable), celomes (ail, fusy, suffer chronically). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 気難しい (crusty, fastidious, moody). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きむずかしい (crusty, fastidious, moody), きむづかしい (crusty, fastidious, moody). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ardhay otay easeplay delicado (daintier, dainty, dead, delicate, exquisite, fastidious, finicky, frail, fussy, hard to speak, hypersensitive, kid glove, killed, particular, polite, refined, sharp, squeamish, subtile, subtle, tenderly, too sensitive, very sensitive). (various references) oförnöjasam. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-h-l-o-p-r-s-t" | |
-3 letters: apholates, asperated, asphalted, desolater, earthpeas, ephorates, holstered, palestrae, pastorale, plastered, plethoras, separated, slathered, spearhead, tapaderos, telophase, trehalose. | |
-4 letters: adapters, adaptors, adoptees, adopters, apholate, areolate, ashlared, ashlered, asperate, asphodel, dealates, delators, deplores, desalter, desolate, dopester, droplets, earthpea, ephedras, ephorate, haltered, halteres, hardtops, headrest, heelpost, heeltaps, hetaeras, hosteled, hosteler, lathered, leathers, leopards, leotards, loadstar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-e-h-l-o-p-r-s-t" | |
+3 letters: radiotelegraphs. | |
+5 letters: radiotelegraphies. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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