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pleasing to the eye

pleasing to the eye adjective: pleasant to look at; physically attractive.

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 to the eye

comparativemore pleasing to the eye
superlativemost pleasing to the eye

Questions about pleasing to the eye

What does pleasing to the eye mean?
Pleasing to the eye means pleasant to look at; physically attractive.
What part of speech is pleasing to the eye?
Pleasing to the eye is an adjective.

Words near pleasing to the eye in the dictionary

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

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