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# pleasingly

«pleasingly» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a way that gives pleasure, satisfaction or a good feeling** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (pleasingly)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In a way that gives pleasure, satisfaction or a good feeling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pleasingly/#m1)

2) (formal) Pleasantly, nicely, to a satisfying degree: pleasingly warm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pleasingly/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in descriptions and reports to show something is good or satisfying: «The cake was pleasingly soft». In art and maths, shapes or patterns can be «pleasingly symmetrical». A slightly formal, writerly word; in speech children say «nicely» or «really». Phrases: «pleasingly simple», «pleasingly symmetrical», «pleasingly warm».

### examples

- The answer came out pleasingly neat: exactly 100. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pleasingly/#x1)
- The garden was pleasingly quiet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pleasingly/#x2)
- The pattern is pleasingly symmetrical. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pleasingly/#x3)
- The bath was pleasingly warm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pleasingly/#x4)
- Her picture was pleasingly bright and colourful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pleasingly/#x5)
- The test results were pleasingly good. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pleasingly/#x6)
- The puzzle pieces clicked pleasingly into place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pleasingly/#x7)

### note

Adverb from «pleasing» (adjective) from «please». Often comes before an adjective: pleasingly round, pleasingly short.

### In the corpora

- ["Pleasingly plump" is an old-fashioned way to say fat in a nice-looking way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/10-weight-and-babies/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pleasingly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pleasingly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.