Pleasing

Definition: Pleasing

Pleasing

Adjective

1. Giving pleasure and satisfaction; "a pleasing piece of news"; "pleasing in manner and appearance".

2. Aesthetically pleasing; "an artistic flower arrangement".

3. Giving pleasure or satisfaction.

4. Able to please or win approval.

Noun

1. The act of one who pleases.

Date "pleasing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Pleasing

Synonyms: aesthetic (adj), appreciated (adj), artistic (adj), esthetic (adj), gratifying (adj), satisfying (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: displeasing (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Amusement	Adjective: amusing, entertaining, diverting; Verb: recreational, recreative, lusory; pleasant; (pleasing); laughable; (ludicrous); witty; fun, festive, festal; jovial, jolly, jocund, roguish, rompish; playful, playful as a kitten; sportive, ludibrious.
Cheerfulness	Cheering, inspiriting, exhilarating; cardiac, cardiacal; pleasing; palmy.
Desire	Desirable; desired; Verb: in demand; pleasing; (giving pleasure); appetizing, appetible; tantalizing.
Inexpedience	Admirable, estimable; praiseworthy; (approve); pleasing; couleur de rose, precious, of great price; costly; (dear); worth its weight in gold, worth a Jew's eye; priceless, invaluable, inestimable, precious as the apple of the eye.
Pain	Adjective: causing pleasure; Verb: laetificant; pleasure-giving, pleasing, pleasant, pleasurable; agreeable; grateful, gratifying; leef, lief, acceptable; welcome, welcome as the roses in May; welcomed; favorite; to one's taste, to one's mind, to one's liking; satisfactory; (good).
Perpetuity	Phrase: esto perpetuum; labitur et labetur in omne volubilis oevum; "but thou shall flourish in immortal youth"; "Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought"; "her immortal part with angels lives"; ohne Rast; ora e sempre.
Pleasure	Pleasing; ecstatic, beatic; painless, unalloyed, without alloy, cloudless.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Nick, when you recollect your childhood, are your recollections pleasing to you (Basic Instinct; writing credit: Joe Eszterhas) I like the smell of my hair treatment; the pleasing odor is half the point (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen) You have grown such pleasing huge breasts, Sara (Pandaemonium; writing credit: Frank Cottrell Boyce) Thank you for pleasing my mother so. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) Humans use these little babies to straighten their hair out. See? Just a little twirl here and a yank there and voila! You've got an aesthetically pleasing configuration of hair that humans go nuts over (The Little Mermaid; writing credit: Roger Allers; Hans Christian Andersen)
Lyrics	In between what I find is pleasing ("Heart of Glass"; performing artist: Blondie) Today I feel like pleasing you more than before (Today; performing artist: Jefferson Airplane) NO REASON JUST SEEMS SO PLEASING (BRASS IN POCKET; performing artist: The Pretenders)
Movie/TV Titles	Pleasing Grandpa (1934) Desperately Pleasing Debbie (1985)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Pillsbury Doughboy Family Pleasing Recipes: 170 Super-Fast and Easy Recipes That Everyone Will Love (reference) Pleasing God (reference) Pleasing God in Our Worship: Today's Issues (reference) The Pleasing Hour (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Pleasing God Box Set (reference) Pleasing God: Loving Krishna (reference) Pleasing God: Serpent Mother (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Ain't No Pleasing You [IMPORT] (reference) Pleasing You (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Edmund Spenser	And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
George Herbert	Ill ware is never cheap. Pleasing ware is half sold.
Joseph Addison	Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
	To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
Miguel De Cervantes	Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
Oliver Goldsmith	The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success.
Samuel Johnson	The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Sir Richard Steele	Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
William Shakespeare	The devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	And he was really a very pleasing young man, a young man whom any woman not fastidious might like
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	But what is pleasing to us towards those who are rising, is less pleasing towards those who are falling
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	A pleasing cordial, princely Buckingham, Is this thy vow unto my sickly heart
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	Our intercourse was thus altogether one of unbroken harmony, far more pleasing to remember than if it had been carried on by speech
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Taiwan	In addition to their pleasing and often new taste to the Taiwanese palate, natural fruit ingredients offer manufacturers opportunities to tout associated nutrition and health benefits. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authenticity and authority. Sometimes it is stamped upon wax, and attached to the paper, sometimes into the paper itself. Sealing, in this sense, is a survival of an ancient custom of inscribing important papers with cabalistic words or signs to give them a magical efficacy independent of the authority that they represent. In the British museum are preserved many ancient papers, mostly of a sacerdotal character, validated by necromantic pentagrams and other devices, frequently initial letters of words to conjure with; and in many instances these are attached in the same way that seals are appended now. As nearly every reasonless and apparently meaningless custom, rite or observance of modern times had origin in some remote utility, it is pleasing to note an example of ancient nonsense evolving in the process of ages into something really useful. Our word "sincere" is derived from sine cero, without wax, but the learned are not in agreement as to whether this refers to the absence of the cabalistic signs, or to that of the wax with which letters were formerly closed from public scrutiny. Either view of the matter will serve one in immediate need of an hypothesis. The initials L.S., commonly appended to signatures of legal documents, mean locum sigillis, the place of the seal, although the seal is no longer used -- an admirable example of conservatism distinguishing Man from the beasts that perish. The words locum sigillis are humbly suggested as a suitable motto for the Pribyloff Islands whenever they shall take their place as a sovereign State of the American Union.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	The latest advices from our envoy at the Court of Madrid give, moreover, the pleasing information that he had assurances of a speedy and satisfactory conclusion of his negotiation.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	Connected with the condition of the finances and the flourishing state of the country in all its branches of industry, it is pleasing to witness the advantages which have been already derived from the recent laws regulating the value of the gold coinage.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Pleasing" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 88.82% of the time. "Pleasing" is used about 491 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	88.82%	437	13,188
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	11.18%	55	45,713
Total	100.00%	491	N/A

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "pleasing".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Thirza	N/A	N/A	Pleasing
Thyrza	N/A	N/A	Pleasing
Tirzah	N/A	Biblical	Pleasing
Titus	N/A	Biblical	Pleasing
Tito	N/A	Italian	Pleasing
Tito	N/A	Spanish	Pleasing
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "pleasing": pleasing manners ♦ very pleasing. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "pleasing": pleasing-pleasingly.
	Ending with "pleasing": crowd-pleasing, eye-pleasing, self-pleasing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "pleasing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		behaaglik (agreeable, comfortable, enjoyable, lovely, nice, pleasant). (various references)

Albanian		tërheqës (absorbing, absorptive, adorable, alluring, appealing, attractable, attractive, catchy, charismatic, comely, cunning, cute, drawer, dreamy, engaging, engrossing, enticing, fetching, interesting, inviting, jolly, likable, likeable, nice, personable, pretty, showy, sightly, winsome), i kënaqshëm (delectable, passable, satisfactory). (various references)

Arabic		‏ممتع (delightful, engaging, enjoyable, entertaining, fine, good, gratifying, interesting, lovely, pleasant, pleasurable, refreshing, sapid, sightly, what fun), ‏محبوب (agreeable, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearly loved, delightful, desirable, favorite, favourite, likable, likeable, lovable, lovely, lover, lovey, popular, well-beloved), ‏مرض (ail, ailment, be ill, become ill, complaint, disease, fall ill, fall sick, favorable, favourable, get ill, illness, infirmity, mal, malady, pleasant, pleasurable, pox, satisfactory, satisfying, sicken, sickness, take ill, trouble), ‏سار (enjoyable, joyful, joyous, pleasurable), ‏ظريف (amiable, amicable, amusing, companionable, fine, flowing, gallant, humorist, humorous, humourist, jolly, likeable, nice, obliging, pet, prepossessing, pretty, quaint, stylish, witty, wry). (various references)

Bulgarian		приятен (acceptable, agreeable, cheerful, clever, companionable, cozy, darling, easy, engaging, enjoyable, good, gracious, grateful, groovy, jocund, jolly, likable, likeable, likely, luscious, merry, musical, nice, nice-looking, not unwelcome, palatable, pleasant, pretty, refreshing, rose colored, rose coloured, sapid, satisfying, savoury, soft, sweet, sympathetic, toothsome, welcome), привлекателен (alluring, appealing, attractive, catching, catchy, congenial, cute, debonair, desirable, engaging, enticing, fetching, ingratiating, interesting, inviting, lickerish, likable, likeable, likely, lovable, prepossessing, pretty, seductive, sightly, taking, tempting, winsome, yummy). (various references)

Chinese		詊 (clever talk), 顗 (respectful manner), 喜欢 (fond, liked, liking), 愉快 (cheerful, cheerily, delighted, delightful, happy, pleasant, pleasantly). (various references)

Czech		příjemný (agreeable, congenial, dulcet, engaging, enjoyable, good, jolly, neighborly, nice, pleasant, pleasurable, Savory, smooth, snug, suave, sweet, winning, winsome), pùvabný (appealing, attractive, charming, comely, dainty, graceful, gracious, ingratiating, inviting, lightsome, lovely, prepossessing, statuesque, winsome), roztomilý (amiable, appealing, charming, cute, darling, lovable, lovely, pretty, refreshing, sweet). (various references)

Dutch		welgevallig, tof (fine, great), smaakvol, bekoorlijk (charming), bekoorlĳk, bekoorlýk (charming, lovely), behaaglijk (agreeable, enjoyable, lovely, nice), behaaglĳk (nice, pleasant), behaaglýk (agreeable, enjoyable, lovely, nice, pleasant), aantrekkelijk (attractive), aantrekkelĳk, aantrekkelýk (appetizing, attractive). (various references)

Esperanto		pla’an, plaĉa. (various references)

Finnish		suloinen (charming, delightful, lovely, sweet), miellyttävä (agreeable, attractive, enjoyable, likable, lovely, nice, pleasant), mieleinen (agreeable), ilahduttava (joyful). (various references)

French		plaisant (pleasant). (various references)

German		angenehm (agreeable, agreeably, congenial, delightful, desirable, enjoyable, genial, genially, gracious, likable, likeable, lovely, nice, palatable, pleasant, pleasantly, pleasingly, pleasurable, savoury, welcome). (various references)

Greek		ευχάριστοσ (agreeable, congenial, consonant, convivial, cosy, cozy, delectable, engaging, gladsome, groovy, jaunty, piquant, pleasant, satisfactory). (various references)

Hebrew		מהנה (enjoyable, pleasant, pleasurable), מנעים, נראה (acceptable, apparent, visible), נרצה (acceptable, desirable). (various references)

Hungarian		kellemes (affable, agreeable, benign, bland, comfortable, comfy, congenial, cushy, dainty, debonair, delectable, delicate, dulcet, engaging, enjoyable, fine, genial, glad, grateful, harmonious, likable, lovely, nice, palatable, pleasant, pleasurable, refined, soft, suave, sweet, to elate, welcome). (various references)

Italian		piacevole (agreeable, beautiful, cushy, delightful, enjoyable, entertaining, genial, good, kindly, likeable, lovely, nice, pleasant, pleasurable, refreshing, sweet), piacente (attractive, pleasant). (various references)

Korean		만족시킴 (satisfying). (various references)

Manx		taitnyssagh (acceptable, amiable, amusing, appealing, charmed, congenial, delectable, delightful, enchanting, endearing, enjoyable, entertaining, grateful, likeable, nice, pleasant, pleasurable, prepossessing, scrumptious), bwooisal (gratitude, thankful), booisal (obliged, thankful). (various references)

Pig Latin		easingplay.(various references)

Polish		przyjemny (agreeable, enjoyable, lovely, nice, pleasant), ładny (beautiful, fair, fine, handsome, lovely, pretty). (various references)

Portuguese		agradável (agreeable, amiable, comely, congenial, cushy, delectable, delightful, easy, enjoyable, entertaining, fine, genial, gladsome, glorious, good-humored, good-humoured, goodly, good-natured, kindly, lovely, merry, music, musical, neat, nice, nutty, pleasant, pleasurable, prepossessing, pretty, racy, restful, snug, sober-blooded, soft, songful, stunner, suave, taking, welcome, well-done, well-natured). (various references)

Romanian		plåcut, plãcut (agreeable, cheerful, comely, dulcet, fine, genial, genially, gladsome, good, goodly, grateful, gratefully, gratifying, handsome, homey, kindly, likable, listenable, merry, neat, nice, pleasant, pleasurable, smooth, snug, sweet), simpatic (attractive, attractively, congenial, inclination, ingratiating, kindly, likable, lovely, nice, nicely, pleasant, prepossessing, pretty, shine, sympathetic), care place (showy), care oferã plãcere, atrãgãtor (alluring, attractive, attractively, beautiful, catchy, fair, fascinating, likable, lovely, luscious, magnetic, prepossessing, seemly, sweet, taking, winning, winsome), agreabil (agreeable, agreeably, attractive, boon, charming, cheerful, delightful, enjoyable, genial, genially, good, gratefully, gratifying, nice, pleasant, pleasurable, smooth-faced). (various references)

Russian		услужливый (complaisant, obliging, prompt), угождать приятный. (various references)

Scottish		taitinn (give delight, please, satisfy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prijatan (agreeable, bonny, conversable, cosy, cozy, delectable, enjoyable, gratified, gratifying, jolly, nice, pleasant, pleasurable, savory, savoury, welcome). (various references)

Spanish		agradable (agreeable, capacious, comfortable, congenial, enjoyable, genial, goodly, likable, lovely, nice, palatable, pleasant, pleasurable, prepossessing, satisfying, welcome). (various references)

Swedish		anslående (agreeable, enjoyable, lovely, nice, pleasant, sympathetic). (various references)

Turkish		memnuniyet verici (gratifying, satisfactory), hoşa giden (likable, likeable, palatable, pleasurable), hoş (affable, agreeable, beautiful, bonny, canny, charming, clean-cut, congenial, debonair, debonaire, delectable, delicious, delightful, desirable, elegant, enjoyable, fine, fragrant, handsome, jolly, kind, kindly, likable, likeable, lovable, lovely, nice, nicely, pleasant, pleasurable, prettily, pretty, sapid, smart, smooth, suave, subtile, subtle, sweetly, tuneful, well, winning, winsome). (various references)

Turkmen		hezil (captivating, interesting). (various references)

Ukrainian		приємний (acceptable, agreeable, amiable, balmy, beautiful, boon, canny, clean-cut, complimentary, couth, cozy, cushy, delectable, dulcet, easy, enjoyable, glad, good, goodly, graceful, grateful, jocund, kindly, lepid, nice, nutty, palatable, pleasant, pleasurable, prepossessing, pretty, redolent, satisfactory, tasty, welcome, yummy), привабливий (alluring, amiable, appealing, appetible, appetizing, arresting, attractable, attractive, canny, captivating, catching, catchy, clean-cut, compelling, engaging, fetching, gash, likable, likeable, lovable, nice-looking, rose colored, rose coloured, specious, well favored, well-favoured, winning, winsome). (various references)

Vietnamese		thú vị (delectable, diverting, enjoyable, entertaining, merry, nicely, pleasant, pleasurable, pretty, rorty), làm vui lòng (pleasurable), làm vừa ý (pleasurable, satisfying), dễ chịu (agreeable, merry, nicely, pleasurable, welcome). (various references)

Welsh		boddhaol (satisfactory). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	zil. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	accepta, acceptam, acceptamque, acceptas, accepti, acceptis, acceptisque, accepto, acceptum, acceptus, beneplacita, beneplacitae, beneplacitis, beneplacito, beneplacitum, grÃ¢ta, gratae, grati, gratis, gratissima, gratissimi, gratissimus, gratum, gratus, iucunda, iucundo, iucundum, iucundus, placidus. (various references)
Middle French	1400-1600	gentil. (various references)
French	1500-Modern	gentil. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Mark Chapter 15, Verse 15
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	O de pilatoV boulomenoV tw oclw to ikanon poihsai apelusen autoiV ton barabban kai paredwken ton ihsoun fragellwsaV ina staurwqh
Latin	405	Vulgate	Pilatus autem volens populo satisfacere dimisit illis Barabban et tradidit Iesum flagellis caesum ut crucifigeretur
Old English	990	West Saxon	Pilatus wolde þa þam folce ge-cwemen.& for-gef heom barraban. & sealdeheom þanne hælend be-swungen þt he ahangenwære.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And Pilat, willynge to make aseeth to the puple, lefte to hem Barabas, and bitok to hem Jhesu, betun with scourgis, to be crucified.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And so Pylate willinge to content the people lowsed them Barrabas and delyvered Iesus when he had scourged him for to be crucified.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas to them, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him to be crucified.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And Pilate, desiring to do what was pleasing to the people, let Barabbas go free, and gave up Jesus, when he had been whipped, to be put to death on the cross.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Mark Chapter 15, Verse 15
Cebuano	¶ Ug kay gitinguha man ni Pilato ang pagpahimuot sa panon sa katawhan, iyang gibuhian si Barrabas alang kanila; ug tapus niya ipahampak si Jesus, iyang gitugyan siya aron ilansang sa krus.
Chinese	彼拉多要叫眾人喜悅、就釋放巴拉巴給他們、將耶穌鞭打了、交給人釘十字架。
Croatian	Hoteæi ugoditi svjetini, Pilat im pusti Barabu, a Isusa izbièeva i preda da se razapne.
Danish	Og da Pilatus vilde gøre Mængden tilpas, løslod han dem Barabbas; og Jesus lod han hudstryge og gav ham hen til at korsfæstes.
Dutch	Pilatus nu, willende der schare genoeg doen, heeft hun Bar-abbas losgelaten, en gaf Jezus over, als hij Hem gegeseld had, om gekruist te worden.
Finnish	Ja kun Pilatus tahtoi tehdä kansalle mieliksi, päästi hän heille Barabbaan, mutta Jeesuksen hän ruoskitti ja luovutti ristiinnaulittavaksi.
French	Pilate, voulant satisfaire la foule, leur relâcha Barabbas; et, après avoir fait battre de verges Jésus, il le livra pour être crucifié.
Gaelic	Agus bho na bha Pilat deonach an sluagh a thoileachadh, leig e Barabbas mu sgaoil dhaibh, `s an deigh Iosa sgiursadh, thug e seachad e, gus a cheusadh.
German	Pilatus aber gedachte, dem Volk genugzutun, und gab ihnen Barabbas los, und geißelte Jesum und überantwortete ihn, daß er gekreuzigt würde.
Hungarian	Pilátus pedig eleget akarván tenni a sokaságnak, elbocsátá nékik Barabbást, Jézust pedig megostoroztatván, kezökbe adá, hogy megfeszítsék.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Pilatus ingin menyenangkan orang banyak itu, maka ia melepaskan Barabas untuk mereka. Kemudian ia menyuruh orang mencambuk Yesus, lalu menyerahkan-Nya untuk disalibkan.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka oleh sebab Pilatus hendak menyenangkan hati orang banyak itu, dilepaskannyalah Barabbas bagi mereka itu, lalu disesahnya Yesus, serta diserahkannya akan disalibkan.
Maori	¶ Na, i tona hiahia kia whakamarietia te mano, tukua ana e Pirato a parapa ki a ratou, a, ka oti a Ihu te whiu, ka tukua kia ripekatia.
Norwegian	Da nu Pilatus vilde gjøre folket til lags, gav han dem Barabbas fri og lot Jesus hudstryke og overgav ham til å korsfestes.
Portuguese	Então Pilatos, querendo satisfazer a multidão, soltou-lhe Barrabás; e tendo mandado açoitar a Jesus, o entregou para ser crucificado.
Rumanian	Pilat a vrut sq facq pe placul norodului, wi le -a slobozit pe Baraba; iar pe Isus, dupqce a pus sq -L batq cu nuiele, L -a dat sq fie rqstignit.
Shuar	¶ Tuma asamtai, aents shiir Enentáimprartí tusa, Piratu Tunáa shuaran, Parapásan jiiki akupkamiayi. Tura Jesusnasha katsumkarum krusnum ajintrurtarum tusa suntaran tsankatkamiayi.
Swahili	Pilato alitaka kuuridhisha huo umati wa watu; basi, akamwachilia Baraba kutoka gerezani. Akaamuru Yesu apigwe viboko, kisha akamtoa asulubiwe.
Swedish	Och eftersom Pilatus ville göra folket till viljes, gav han dem Barabbas lös; men Jesus lät han gissla och utlämnade honom sedan till att korsfästas.
Uma	¶ Pilatus doko' ngala' nono ntodea, toe pai' nabahaka-miraka Barabas. Oti toe, nahubui-mi tantara-na mpoweba' Yesus pai' natonu-miraka bona raparika'.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "pleasing": pleasingly, pleasingness, pleasingnesses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "pleasing": displeasing, unpleasing. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Pleasing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aliasing, gleasing, peeesing, peising, pelasgian, pelasgians, plaesing, plausing, pleasan, Pleasin. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "pleasing" (pronounced plē"zing or plē"zingtun)
4	-ē" z i ng	appeasing, easing, freezing, seizing, sneezing, squeezing, teasing, wheezing.
3	-z i ng	antagonizing, apologizing, appetizing, appraising, arising, abusing, accusing, advertising, advising, aggrandizing, agonizing, amazing, amortizing, amusing, analyzing, arousing, authorizing, blazing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, brutalizing, bulldozing, buzzing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, carousing, categorizing, causing, centralizing, characterizing, chastising, choosing, cleansing, closing, colorizing, commercializing, composing, comprising, compromising, computerizing, confusing, criminalizing, criticizing, cruising, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, decomposing, decriminalizing, deemphasizing, defusing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, devising, diffusing, digitizing, disclosing, disguising, disposing, downsizing, dozing, dramatizing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, enclosing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, espousing, excusing, exercising, exposing, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, foreclosing, formalizing, franchising, fraternizing, fusing, galvanizing, gazing, generalizing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, harmonizing, hazing, hosing, housing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immortalizing, immunizing, imposing, improvising, industrializing, infusing, institutionalizing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, losing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, misusing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, musing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, nosing, oozing, opposing, organizing, overgrazing, overusing, oxidizing, paralyzing, paraphrasing, patronizing, pausing, penalizing, personalizing, perusing, phasing, phrasing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, posing, praising, predisposing, prioritizing, privatizing, proposing, proselytizing, publicizing, quizzing, raising, rationalizing, razing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, recusing, refusing, reimposing, reorganizing, reusing, revising, revitalizing, revolutionizing, rising, romanticizing, Rosing, sanitizing, satirizing, schmoozing, scrutinizing, securitizing, sensationalizing, sizing, snoozing, socializing, specializing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, strategizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, supposing, surprising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, uncompromising, unionizing, unsurprising, uprising, using, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, victimizing, visualizing, warehousing, whizzing, womanizing.
4	-ng t u n	phytoplankton.
3	-t u n	fatten, actin, badminton, batten, beaten, begotten, biotin, bitten, Boston, boughten, Bouton, brighten, bulletin, Burton, button, Canton, capstan, captain, carton, certain, charlatan, chieftain, clandestine, cosmopolitan, cotton, craton, curtain, Dalton, dentin, dishearten, eaten, enlighten, exoskeleton, flatten, forgotten, fountain, frighten, frostbitten, gelatin, gluten, gotten, guncotton, handwritten, hearten, heighten, highfalutin, intermountain, intestine, jetton, kindergarten, kitten, lighten, litten, lovastatin, Manhattan, marten, Martin, Melton, metropolitan, misbegotten, mitten, molten, mountain, mutton, nekton, Newton, overwritten, Parton, Patten, piston, plankton, plantain, platen, ponton, predestine, prolactin, puritan, rewritten, rotten, Samaritan, satin, Seton, Sexton, shorten, Singleton, skeleton, smitten, spartan, straighten, sultan, sweeten, tartan, teston, threaten, tighten, Titan, Triton, tungsten, typewritten, unbeaten, unbutton, uncertain, underwritten, unwritten, verboten, wanton, wheaten, whiten, written.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: elapsing.
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-p-s"
	-1 letter: alpines, lapsing, leaping, leasing, linages, palings, pealing, pineals, sapling, sealing, spaeing, spangle, spaniel, spinage, splenia.
	-2 letters: algins, aliens, aligns, alines, alpine, angels, angles, easing, elains, espial, genial, genips, gleans, ingles, lapins, lasing, lianes, liangs, ligans, ligase, linage, lingas, lipase, paling, panels, penial, pensil, pineal, plages, plains, planes, saline, signal, silage, silane, single.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-p-s"
	+1 letter: graplines, panelings, pleadings, relapsing, salpinges, spanglier.
	+2 letters: beclasping, enclasping, escaloping, lagniappes, opalescing, panellings, pargylines, pellagrins, penalising, plastering, pleasingly, pleasuring, reclasping, resampling, spanceling, spangliest, unpleasing.
	+3 letters: antiplagues, blaspheming, displeasing, encapsuling, escalloping, espaliering, generalship, lightplanes, lipreadings, mispleading, palletising, pedestaling, plaistering, plangencies, plasminogen, plasterings, spancelling, speculating, splattering.
	+4 letters: despairingly, earsplitting, gallinippers, generalships, palingeneses, palingenesis, palynologies, pedestalling, pelargoniums, plantigrades, plasminogens, platemakings, pleasingness, redisplaying, replastering, sleepwalking, spacewalking, specialising, specializing, speedballing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
pleasing woman	60	pleasing tip woman	5
man pleasing	53	girl pleasing	4
pleasing	33	pleasing yourself	3
pleasing woman sexually	21	man pleasing woman	3
man pleasing sexually	20	husband pleasing sexually	3
pleasing your wife	15	man pleasing sexually woman	3
pleasing your partner	10	aroma pleasing	3
bed in man pleasing	9	him pleasing	3
pleasing woman in bed	8	kinsey pleasing	3
party pleasing rental	7	guy pleasing	3
people pleasing	7	dedicate ourselves pleasing sophisticated traveler we	2
pleasing your husband	6	girlfriend pleasing	2
her pleasing	6	pleasing sex tip woman	2
pleasing god	5	boyfriend pleasing	2
		pleasing your mate	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pleasing

Definition: Pleasing

Pleasing

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Amusement

Cheerfulness

Desire

Inexpedience

Pain

Perpetuity

Pleasure

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Emma

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Walden

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pleasing

Modern Translation: Pleasing

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