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pleaser

pleaser

8 3.7
A person who tries hard to make other people happy, even when it hurts them
  • noun
  • /ˈplizər/
  • Informal
translation icon : complaciente
  • I am also a people pleaser and am trying to change that.
  • people-pleaser
  • crowd-pleaser
  • a big crowd pleaser

And don't you find as well, if you're a people pleaser, it's uncomfortable.

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Examples

  • Oh boy, as a recovering people pleaser and perfectionist, can I relate to this!

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  • But the downside of a people pleaser is they want to please everybody.

  • How does someone who is a people pleaser, how do they turn that ship around?

  • I was a people pleaser for most of my life, so it's been a process to learn to say 'no'.

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  • And I mean, I'm a people pleaser so I thought I'll do that.

  • Learning to, I don't know, be less of a people pleaser is proving difficult.

  • As a chronic people-pleaser, I have to try to make those around me happy.

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  • For a people-pleaser like me, it was torture!

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  • And don't you find as well, if you're a people pleaser, it's uncomfortable.

  • As a true pleaser, she always prioritizes her friends' happiness over her own.

Synonyms

satisfier
vspleaser
6.9

Something that meets a need or want and makes you feel good

focuses on trying hard to make others happy, often putting others' needs first

How Accommodating

doormat
  • Offensive
15 6.4
pleaser
  • Informal
8 3.7
assister
3.0

Surface Forms

pleaser singular
pleasers plural

Morphology

pleaser = please (transparent) = please + er

A straightforward agentive nominalization from 'please'; the social-psychological sense ('one who tries to please others') is directly inferred.

Etymology

Pleaser comes from please + -er, with please from the Latin placere meaning 'to please' and the same root as pleasant. So a pleaser is a person who tries hard to make others happy, often putting other people's needs before their own.