English > please: 4 senses > verb 1, emotion| Meaning | Give pleasure to or be pleasing to. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody |
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| Model | The good news will please her; The performance is likely to please Sue |
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| Example | "These colors please the senses" |
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| Synonym | delight |
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| Cause to | like | Be fond of |
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| like | Find enjoyable or agreeable |
| Entailed by | titillate | excite pleasurably or erotically |
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| Narrower | enchant, enrapture, transport, enthrall, ravish, enthral, delight | hold spellbound |
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| endear | make attractive or lovable |
| Broader | satisfy, gratify | make happy or satisfied |
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| Opposite | displease | Give displeasure to |
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| Similar to | please | Give satisfaction |
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| Spanish | agradar, complacer, deleitarse, deleitar, disfrutar, encantar, gustar, halagar |
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| Catalan | afalagar, agradar, amoixar, complaure, delectar, delitar-se, disfrutar, encantar, plaure |
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| Adjectives | pleasant | affording pleasure |
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| Nouns | pleaser | a pleasing entertainer |
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| pleasing | the act of one who pleases |
| pleasure | an activity that affords enjoyment |
| pleasure | something or someone that provides a source of happiness |
| pleasure | a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience |
