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pleaser

pleaser

15 4.1
A thing that entertains and delights a group of people
  • noun
  • /ˈplizər/
: favorito del público
  • I've been making Williams-Sonoma's Herb-Roasted Turkey for the past few years, and it's a crowd pleaser.
  • a crowd-pleaser

Ben Affleck and Argo, you know, Argo's a fantastic film, a crowd pleaser, all these things and and he he shows.

Examples

  • And it's expected the Mogul event has been a real crowd pleaser.

  • - That was a real crowd pleaser.

  • # That girl is a real crowd pleaser # # Small world

  • There is no doubt that this is bound to be a crowd pleaser.

    Blog text (5)
  • You know, you're gonna be a real crowd pleaser.

  • Yeah, that'll be a real crowd pleaser.

  • Tonight we've got maths, chemistry, physics and that famous crowd pleaser history.

  • With a little fine-tuning from director Lina Koutrakos, this talented writing team's cabaret act can become a crowd pleaser.

    Blog text (16)
  • To a bibliographer, she spoke in the voice that had long proved to be a crowd-pleaser, the endearingly unsentimental voice of Molly Bloom: "It is just as well my husband didn't have a literary wife."

    Academic text (1990)
  • The magician was a real pleaser with his incredible tricks that delighted the audience.

Synonyms

entertainer
vspleaser
118 2.1

A person who performs to make people laugh or enjoy themselves

is any person or thing that delights others rather than a paid professional
charmer
vspleaser
34 3.4

A person who is pleasant and easily makes others like them

delights or entertains people more generally not just by personal appeal
funster
vspleaser
  • Informal
1 8.9

A person who makes others laugh in a group

is broader covering any source of delight beyond casual joking
engager
vspleaser
1 6.8

Something that attracts and keeps people's attention

focuses on entertaining and delighting others rather than only attracting attention

How Entertaining

showstopper
8 5.7
pleaser
15 4.1
entertainer
118 2.1
dud
  • Offensive
21 5.8

Surface Forms

pleaser singular
pleasers plural

Morphology

pleaser = please (transparent) = please + er

The meaning is clearly derived from 'please' with the agentive suffix '-er', indicating a person or thing that pleases.

Etymology

Pleaser comes from the word please plus the ending -er, and please comes from the Latin placere meaning 'to please' and is the same root as pleasant. So a pleaser is something or someone that makes people happy or gives them pleasure.