'Pleased' definitions:
Definition of 'pleased'
From: WordNet
adjective
Experiencing or manifesting pleasure [ant: displeased]
adjective
Feeling pleasurable satisfaction over something by which you measures your self-worth; "proud of their child" [syn: pleased, proud of(p)]
Definition of 'Pleased'
From: GCIDE
- Please \Please\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pleased; p. pr. & vb. n. Pleasing.] [OE. plesen, OF. plaisir, fr. L. placere, akin to placare to reconcile. Cf. Complacent, Placable, Placid, Plea, Plead, Pleasure.]
- 1. To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy. [1913 Webster]
- I pray to God that it may plesen you. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- What next I bring shall please thee, be assured. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To have or take pleasure in; hence, to choose; to wish; to desire; to will. [1913 Webster]
- Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he. --Ps. cxxxv. 6. [1913 Webster]
- A man doing as he wills, and doing as he pleases, are the same things in common speech. --J. Edwards. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To be the will or pleasure of; to seem good to; -- used impersonally. "It pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell." --Col. i. 19. [1913 Webster]
- To-morrow, may it please you. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To be pleased in or To be pleased with, to have complacency in; to take pleasure in.
- To be pleased to do a thing, to take pleasure in doing it; to have the will to do it; to think proper to do it. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pleased'
From: GCIDE
- Pleased \Pleased\, a. Experiencing pleasure. -- {Pleas"ed*ly}, adv. -- {Pleas"ed*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pleased'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accepting,
- at ease,
- charmed,
- chuffed,
- comfortable,
- composed,
- content,
- contented,
- cozy,
- delighted,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- eupeptic,
- euphoric,
- exhilarated,
- favorably impressed with,
- glad,
- gladsome,
- gratified,
- happy,
- in clover,
- in seventh heaven,
- intrigued,
- of good comfort,
- on cloud nine,
- pleased as Punch,
- pleased with,
- reconciled,
- resigned,
- sans souci,
- satisfied,
- sold on,
- taken with,
- thrilled,
- tickled,
- tickled pink,
- tickled to death,
- uncomplaining,
- unrepining,
- without care