pleased
693
1.0
- adjective
- /plizd/
- He seemed pleased with the results of the team's efforts.
- very pleased
- pleased to see
- pleased to announce
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Watch on YouTubeI think she's going to be quite pleased with this transformation.
- I think she's going to be quite pleased with this transformation.
- Apparently, Kim Jong Un was none too pleased with his Little Rocket Man nickname.
- I'm pretty pleased with how most of it turned out.
- So first, I'm very pleased to be here with you today.
- But you know, I, I'm pleased that I found a way out.
- So we were not pleased by this idea.
- I am always so pleased to talk to Johnny.
- I will say that I have been overwhelmingly pleased with my shoe choices from Sheehan.
Examples
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I am really pleased with how this came out.
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Prime Minister, I am very pleased to be back in the United Kingdom.
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OK, So I am pleased with where that is.
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And you should be pleased, as well.
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After three separate procedures over six months, the patient was pleased with the result.
Academic text (1999) -
I'm pretty pleased with how most of it turned out.
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I'm very pleased to meet you.
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I am pleased for your sake that you have won such honors.
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Overall, it appears that the vast majority were pleased with their overall experience as high school athletes.
Academic text (1991) -
The woman reddened, but everybody else seemed pleased by his answer, even her husband.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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1.0
Feeling pleased and content
∞
1.0
Feeling pleased or happy about something
400
1.3
Pleased because you achieved something or got the result you wanted
383
2.3
Feeling very excited and happy
293
1.0
Feeling happy and relieved because someone helped you or something turned out well
228
1.0
Feeling very happy about something good
73
1.0
Feeling or showing great happiness
61
4.5
Feeling very happy and excited
29
2.1
Feeling very happy and excited about something good
28
4.0
Feeling very happy and excited because of good news or success
22
3.3
Very happy and free from worry
18
2.0
Feeling happy and satisfied with what you have
17
4.0
Feeling pleased and satisfied because you received something you wanted
14
5.0
Feeling very happy because of a success or a good event
11
4.4
Feeling very happy and full of energy
11
1.2
Very happy and excited in a playful way
8
3.2
Feeling very excited and happy about something
3
8.2
Very pleased about something
2
3.8
Feeling happy and showing it
1
3.0
To make someone feel happy
1
1.7
Feeling very happy about something
1
8.2
Feeling very happy and content
1
9.0
Feeling happy and cheerful
Feeling very happy and excited
Very pleased and full of joy
Feeling very happy and excited
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How Pleased
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Etymology
Pleased comes from the old verb please, which itself comes from the Latin root placere meaning 'to please' or 'to be liked', and it is the same root as pleasant. So, if something 'pleases' you it makes you feel happy or satisfied, which is why to be pleased is to feel happy or content.