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please
[ pleez ]
adverb
- (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly:
Please come here.
Will you please turn the radio off?
verb (used with object)
- to act to the pleasure or satisfaction of:
to please the public.
- to be the pleasure or will of:
May it please your Majesty.
please
/ ˈpliːzɪdlɪ; pliːz /
verb
- to give satisfaction, pleasure, or contentment to (a person); make or cause (a person) to be glad
- to be the will of or have the will (to)
the court pleases
if it pleases you
- if you pleaseif you will or wish, sometimes used in ironic exclamation
- pleased withhappy because of
- please oneselfto do as one likes
adverb
- sentence modifier used in making polite requests and in pleading, asking for a favour, etc
please don't tell the police where I am
- yes pleasea polite formula for accepting an offer, invitation, etc
Derived Forms
- ˈpleaser, noun
- pleased, adjective
- ˈpleasable, adjective
- pleasedly, adverb
Other Words From
- pleas·a·ble adjective
- pleas·ed·ly [plee, -zid-lee, pleezd, -], adverb
- pleas·ed·ness noun
- pleas·er noun
- half-pleased adjective
- out·please verb (used with object) outpleased outpleasing
- o·ver·please verb overpleased overpleasing
- self-pleased adjective
- un·pleas·a·ble adjective
- un·pleased adjective
- well-pleased adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of please1
Word History and Origins
Origin of please1
Idioms and Phrases
- if you please,
- if it be your pleasure; if you like or prefer.
- (used as an exclamation expressing astonishment, indignation, etc.):
The missing letter was in his pocket, if you please!
More idioms and phrases containing please
see as you please .Example Sentences
"If you want to support anyone by signing new lists for the presidential campaign, please do as your conscience tells you," he said.
"I don't expect everyone to have the same relationship with the manager, that's football. Ultimately he has to make decisions and he's never going to please everyone."
Owen said she was "so pleased" to hear the minister's commitment.
"Google asking everyone to please not factory reset their Chromecast after hours when it's one of the most used fixes, is hilarious," said another.
However, Jodie is pleased the app will be free to use when it launches, and says that will make people "more likely to give it a try to invest in it".
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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