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pleased

/pliːzd/

pleased adjective: happy, content. Also the simple past and past participle of please.

Adjective

pleased (comparative more pleased, superlative most pleased)

  1. Happy, content.
    • She was pleased about her exam results.
    • I’m pleased to meet you at last.
  2. (archaic, formal) Agreeable, consenting (when referring to a monarch or other powerful person).
    • The queen was pleased to accept the countess into her household as a lady-in-waiting.

Also used as

pleased is also the simple past and past participle of please.

pleased meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Malayalam

pleased in Hindi

happy, content
मुदित mudit, हर्षित harṣit, संतुष्ट santuṣṭ, आह्लादित ख़ुश āhlādit

pleased in Marathi

प्रसन्न झाले

pleased in Urdu

happy, content
خوش xuś

pleased in Malayalam

സന്തോഷിച്ചു
More languagesFewer languages
pleased in Arabic
مَسْرُور masrūr
pleased in Persian
خوشحال xošhâl
pleased in Thai
พอใจ pɔɔ-jai
pleased in Vietnamese
hân hạnh

Synonyms of pleased

Forms of pleased

comparativemore pleased
superlativemost pleased

Origin of pleased

From Middle English plesed, iplesed (past participle) and Middle English plesede (preterit), both equivalent to please + -ed.

Words formed from pleased

Words that rhyme with pleased

Questions about pleased

What does pleased mean?
Pleased means happy, content.
What is pleased in Hindi?
Pleased in Hindi is मुदित (mudit), हर्षित (harṣit), संतुष्ट (santuṣṭ). See Pleased meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is pleased?
Pleased is an adjective.
How do you pronounce pleased?
Pleased is pronounced /pliːzd/.

Words near pleased in the dictionary

  1. please turn left
  2. please turn right
  3. please yourself
  4. please-time
  5. pleaseable
  6. pleased
  7. pleased as punch
  8. pleased to meet you
  9. pleased with oneself
  10. pleasedly
  11. pleasedness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pleased (page history and authors); pleased (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pleased (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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.

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