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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
pleased
    adj 1: experiencing or manifesting pleasure [ant: displeased]
    2: feeling pleasurable satisfaction over something by which you
       measures your self-worth; "proud of their child" [syn:
       pleased, proud of(p)]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Please \Please\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pleased; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Pleasing.] [OE. plesen, OF. plaisir, fr. L. placere, akin
   to placare to reconcile. Cf. Complacent, Placable,
   Placid, Plea, Plead, Pleasure.]
   1. To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or
      emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to
      satisfy.
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            I pray to God that it may plesen you. --Chaucer.
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            What next I bring shall please thee, be assured.
                                                  --Milton.
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   2. To have or take pleasure in; hence, to choose; to wish; to
      desire; to will.
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            Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he. --Ps.
                                                  cxxxv. 6.
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            A man doing as he wills, and doing as he pleases,
            are the same things in common speech. --J. Edwards.
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   3. To be the will or pleasure of; to seem good to; -- used
      impersonally. "It pleased the Father that in him should
      all fullness dwell." --Col. i. 19.
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            To-morrow, may it please you.         --Shak.
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   To be pleased in or To be pleased with, to have
      complacency in; to take pleasure in.

   To be pleased to do a thing, to take pleasure in doing it;
      to have the will to do it; to think proper to do it.
      --Dryden.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pleased \Pleased\, a.
   Experiencing pleasure. -- Pleas"ed*ly, adv. --
   Pleas"ed*ness, n.
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Thesaurus Results for Pleased:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
accepting, at ease, charmed, chuffed, comfortable, composed, content, contented, cozy, delighted, easy, easygoing, eupeptic, euphoric, exhilarated, favorably impressed with, glad, gladsome, gratified, happy, in clover, in seventh heaven, intrigued, of good comfort, on cloud nine, pleased as Punch, pleased with, reconciled, resigned, sans souci, satisfied, sold on, taken with, thrilled, tickled, tickled pink, tickled to death, uncomplaining, unrepining, without care
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