Synonyms of please
88 similar words · 60 opposite words
Another word for please is enough. Other synonyms of please are pardon and what.
Synonyms and similar words for please
verbTo make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.
- cheerTo gladden; to make cheerful; often with up.
- heartenTo give heart to; to encourage, urge on, cheer, give confidence to.
- satisfy
- beatifyTo make blissful.
- enraptureTo fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate or captivate.
- begladdenTo gladden about or all over; make glad; overjoy.
- blissenTo make blissful or happy; fill with or impart bliss to.
- brightOften followed by up: to cause (someone or something) to be bright (in various senses); to brighten; specifically, to...
- fetch
- cheer upTo make someone happier or less downcast.
- contentTo give contentment or satisfaction to; to satisfy; to make happy.
- delightTo give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.
- elateTo make joyful or proud.
- enblissTo endue or fill with bliss; impart bliss to; make happy.
- exhilarateTo cheer, to cheer up, to gladden, to make happy, to elate.
- gladdenTo cause (something) to become more glad.
- gratifyTo please.
- happifyTo make happy.
- happyOften followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.
- jollifyTo make jolly.
- light upTo make happy.
- make someone's dayTo make someone happy, or be a source of satisfaction, for the rest of the day.
- perk upTo cause to be more lively or enthusiastic.
- raise someone's spiritsTo make someone feel in a better mood.
- rejoiceTo make happy, exhilarate.
- turn the frown upside downTo become or make somebody else happy after being sad.
- warm someone's heartMake glad.
- warm the cockles of someone's heartTo provide someone with a deep feeling of contentment or happiness.
- abound
- amuse
- appease
- assuage
- captivate
- cater
- cloy
- compensate
- conciliate
- entertain
- exuberate
- fascinate
- fill
- flatterTo cheer or please (with the idea that); congratulate oneself, especially when the perception is false.
- fulfill
- humor
- humourTo pacify by indulging.
- indulge
- measure upTo meet expectations; to be as good as.
- mollify
- pacify
- placateTo calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that they become content or at least no...
- propitiate
- provide
- quench
- sateTo satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.
- satiate
- score
- serve
- slake
- suffice
- suitTo please; to make content; to fit someone's (or one's own) taste.
- supply
- teem
- cherish obsoleteTo cheer, to gladden.
- elevate obsoleteTo lift the spirits of (someone).
- fain obsoleteTo make (someone) glad; to gladden; hence, to congratulate (someone); to welcome (someone).
- gay dated
- gladden someone's heart datedSynonym of warm someone's heart.
- laetificate rareTo make, or become, happy.
- upcheer archaicTo cheer up.
interjectionUsed as an affirmative to an offer.
- thank youUsed as a polite affirmative to accept an offer.
interjectionAn expression of annoyance, impatience, or exasperation.
- enoughStop! Don't do that any more! It is too much!
- enough alreadyStop; that is enough (of some negative behavior such as arguing).
- that's enoughAn admonition.
- no moreStop it! Don't continue!
- cut it outSynonym of knock it off.
- knock it offCease doing something, particularly annoying or unpleasant; desist.
- shut up
- STFU
interjectionSaid as a request to repeat information.
- pardonOften used when someone does not understand what another person says.
- pardon me
- beg pardon
- excuse me
- say again"What did you say?" or "Repeat what you have said." A polite formula used when one has not heard or understood what has...
- come again
- what's that
- what
Opposite of please
verbTo make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.
- annoyTo disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
- disgustTo cause an intense dislike for something.
- displease
- irritateTo provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure in.
- aggravate
- nettle
- rankle
- ruffle
- sting
- burn someone's assTo irritate, bother, grind one's gears.
- antagonizeTo work against; to oppose (especially to incite a reaction).
- bother
- disgruntleTo make discontent or cross; to put in a bad temper.
- botherateTo bother.
- bug
- get
- grate
- burn up
- bedevil
- acerbate formal
- cheese off slangTo annoy.
- devil
- exasperate
- frustrate
- get up
- grotch
- hack off
- hassle
- irkTo irritate; annoy; bother.
- jazz
- molest
- mommick US, dialectal
- nark
- pee off slangSynonym of piss off (all senses).
- peeveTo annoy; vex.
- peeve offSynonym of annoy or piss off.
- persecute
- pique
- piss off vulgar
- provoke
- rile
- rile upTo rile; to aggravate.
- roil
- storm
- test someone's patienceTo begin to frustrate someone.
- tick off Canada, US
- trouble
- try one's patience
- vex
- wind up
- Idioms:
- boil someone's piss vulgarTo irritate someone very much; to make someone very annoyed.
- chap someone's hideTo annoy someone; get on someone's nerves.
- get on someone's nervesTo annoy or irritate someone; to bother someone.
- get on someone's tits vulgarTo annoy or irritate.
- get on someone's wickTo annoy or upset someone, especially by repeated disagreeable actions.
- get someone's back upTo annoy or anger someone.
- get someone's dander upTo anger or annoy someone.
- get someone's goatTo annoy or infuriate someone.
- get someone's Irish upTo anger or annoy someone.
Meaning of please
- verb To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.
- verb To desire; to will; to be pleased by.
- adverb Used to make a polite request.
please in other languages
Questions about synonyms of please
- What is another word for please?
- Please has 88 synonyms on Word.ws, such as enough, pardon and what.
- What is the opposite of please?
- The opposite of please is annoy. Other antonyms of please are irritate, disgust, get, antagonize and irk.
- What does please mean?
- Please means to make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.
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