Word.ws English Dictionary

displeases

displeases is the third-person singular simple present indicative of displease.

Meaning of displease

Verb

displease (third-person singular simple present displeases, present participle displeasing, simple past and past participle displeased)

  1. (transitive) To make not pleased; to cause a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to vex slightly.
    • The boy's rudeness displeased me.
  2. (intransitive) To give displeasure or offense.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To fail to satisfy; to miss of.
    • I shall displease my ends else.c. 1608–1611, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Maid’s Tragedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act IV...

Questions about displeases

What is displeases the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Displeases is the third-person singular simple present indicative of displease.

Words near displeases in the dictionary

  1. displeased
  2. displeasedly
  3. displeasedness
  4. displeaser
  5. displeasers
  6. displeases
  7. displeasing
  8. displeasingly
  9. displeasingness
  10. displeasurable
  11. displeasurably

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: displeases (page history and authors); displease (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “displeases.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/displeases. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.