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pleasing on the eye

pleasing on the eye is the alternative form of pleasing to the eye.

Meaning of pleasing to the eye

Adjective

pleasing to the eye (comparative more pleasing to the eye, superlative most pleasing to the eye)

  1. pleasant to look at; physically attractive
    • Compact strongly-built engines, with a capacity for hard work, they were, perhaps, not in the front rank of handsome locomotives, yet withal were pleasing to the eye.1958 July, J. P. Wilson, “Scottish Soliloquy”, in Railway Magazine, pages 493, 495

Forms of pleasing on the eye

comparativemore pleasing on the eye
superlativemost pleasing on the eye

Questions about pleasing on the eye

What is pleasing on the eye the alternative form of?
Pleasing on the eye is the alternative form of pleasing to the eye.

Words near pleasing on the eye in the dictionary

  1. pleasing
  2. pleasing fungus beetle
  3. pleasing fungus beetles
  4. pleasing lacewing
  5. pleasing lacewings
  6. pleasing on the eye
  7. pleasing to the eye
  8. pleasingly
  9. pleasingness
  10. pleasings
  11. Pleasington

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