please
/pliz/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.66 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.
intj
Used as an affirmative to an offer.
intj
An expression of annoyance, impatience, or exasperation.
intj
An expression of annoyance, impatience, or exasperation.
intj
Said as a request to repeat information.
Example Sentences
- "Her presentation pleased the executives."
- "I'm pleased to see you've been behaving yourself."
- "Our new range of organic foods is sure to please."
- "And so it had always pleased M. Stutz to expect great things from the dark young man whom he had first seen in his early twenties ; and his expectations had waxed rather than waned on hearing the faint bruit of the love of Ivor and Virginia—for Virginia, M. Stutz thought, would bring fineness to a point in a man like Ivor Marlay, […]."
- "World tour, media whore / "Please the Press in Belgium!" / This was your life"
- "How can an operator be, at the same time, top for overall satisfaction and bottom for value for money? I turned to Anthony Smith for the answer, leaning on his 20 years running Transport Focus and its predecessors. It's commuters, he explained. "You can't please commuters, you can only not displease them.""
Etymology
From Middle English plesen, plaisen, borrowed from Old French plaise, conjugated form of plaisir or plaire, from Latin placeō (“to please, to seem good”), from the Proto-Indo-European *pleHk- (“pleasingness, permission”). In this sense, displaced native Old English līcian, whence Modern English like.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /pliz/
- British English: /pliːz/
Usage
Inflected Forms
pleases (present, singular)
pleasing (participle, present)
pleased (participle, past)
pleased (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
pleased (first person, past)
pleas'd (archaic, first person)
pleasest (archaic, present)
pleased (past, second person)
pleasedst (archaic, past)
pleas'd (archaic, past)