Word Meanings - SUPERPLEASE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To please exceedingly. B. Jonson.

PLEASER
One who pleases or gratifies.
PLEASED
Experiencing pleasure. -- Pleas"ed*ly, adv. -- Pleas"ed*ness, n.
PLEASEMAN
An officious person who courts favor servilely; a pickthank. Shak.
PLEASE
1. To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy. I pray to God that it may plesen you. Chaucer. What next I bring shall please thee, be assured. Milton. 2. To have or take
EXCEEDINGLY
To a very great degree; beyond what is usual; surpassingly. It signifies more than very.
OVERPLEASE
To please excessively.
TIMEPLEASER
One who complies with prevailing opinions, whatever they may be; a timeserver. Timepleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness. Shak.
MEN-PLEASER
One whose motive is to please men or the world, rather than God. Eph. vi. 6.
DISPLEASER
One who displeases.
SUPERPLEASE
To please exceedingly. B. Jonson.
DISPLEASEDNESS
Displeasure. South.
DISPLEASE
pref. des- + plaisir to please. See Please, and cf. 1. To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at. It usually expresses less than to anger,
DISPLEASEDLY
With displeasure.