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 →

2) (formal) Pleasantly, nicely, to a satisfying degree: pleasingly warm. tree →

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 →
• The garden was pleasingly quiet. tree →
• The pattern is pleasingly symmetrical. tree →
• The bath was pleasingly warm. tree →
• Her picture was pleasingly bright and colourful. tree →
• The test results were pleasingly good. tree →
• The puzzle pieces clicked pleasingly into place. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pleasingly» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.