English
Etymology
From Middle English plesed, iplesed (past participle) and Middle English plesede (preterit), both equivalent to please + -ed.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pliːzd/
- Rhymes: -iːzd
Adjective
pleased (comparative more pleased, superlative most pleased)
- Happy, content
She was pleased with her exam results.
I’m pleased to meet you at last.
They seemed pleased by the unexpected gift.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
happy, content
- Arabic: مَسْرُور (ar) (masrūr)
- Armenian: գոհ (hy) (goh)
- Catalan: content (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 高興 / 高兴 (gou1 hing3)
- Mandarin: 高興 / 高兴 (zh) (gāoxìng)
- Esperanto: kontenta, plaĉita
- Finnish: hyvillään (fi), mielissään, tyytyväinen (fi), iloinen (fi)
- French: content (fr), satisfait (fr)
- German: froh (de), zufrieden (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἥδομαι (hḗdomai) (be pleased)
- Hindi: ख़ुश (xuś)
- Irish: áthasach, as a predicative, usually expressed by a construction with the noun áthas m, sásta
- Italian: felice (it), lieto (it), contento (it), compiaciuto (it)
- Japanese: 嬉しい (ja) (うれしい, ureshii)
- Kapampangan: masuelu, maswelu
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: چاو ڕوون (çaw rûn), خۆشحاڵ (xoşḧall)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: waingōhia, manawareka, matakuikui, pārekareka, uruhau, harakoakoa, harikoa
- Persian: خوشحال (fa) (xošhâl)
- Portuguese: contente (pt), satisfeito (pt)
- Russian: дово́льный (ru) m (dovólʹnyj), ра́достный (ru) (rádostnyj)
- Spanish: contento (es), satisfecho (es)
- Swedish: nöjd (sv) c
- Thai: พอใจ (th) (pɔɔ-jai)
- Urdu: خوش (xuś)
- Vietnamese: hân hạnh (vi)
- Yiddish: צופֿרידן (tsufridn)
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Verb
pleased
- simple past and past participle of please
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