Definition of PLEASE

please

Verb

Verb Forms: pleased, pleasing, pleases

  • To give enjoyment or satisfaction to; to be agreeable to.
  • give pleasure to or be pleasing to
    • "These colors please the senses"
  • be the will of or have the will (to)
    • "he could do many things if he pleased"
  • give satisfaction
    • "The waiters around her aim to please"
  • To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.
  • To desire; to will; to be pleased by.

Adverb

  • used in polite request
    • "please pay attention"

Adv

  • Used to make a polite request.

Intj

  • Used as an affirmative to an offer.
  • An expression of annoyance, impatience, or exasperation.
  • Said as a request to repeat information.

Examples

  • Could you tell me the time, please?
  • Customer while ordering: Can I get a [unintelligible]? Restaurant employee: Please?
  • D'you mind if I open the window? —Please do.
  • He doesn't think, he just says whatever he pleases.
  • Her presentation pleased the executives.
  • I'm pleased to see you've been behaving yourself.
  • Just do as you please.
  • May I help you? —(Yes,) please.
  • May I take your order, please?
  • Oh, please, do we have to hear that again?
  • Our new range of organic foods is sure to please.
  • Please, pass the bread.
  • Q: Should I call him to confirm? A: Please do.
  • So it's safe to let a 10-year-old use a gun? Please.
  • So now I have to go back there a third time? Please!
  • Winning a Scrabble game always seemed to please her more than any other board game.
  • Would you please sign this form?

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English plesen, plaisen, borrowed from Old French plaise, conjugated form of plaisir or plaire, from Latin placeō (“to please, to seem good”), from the Proto-Indo-European *pleHk- (“pleasingness, permission”). In this sense, displaced native Old English līcian, whence Modern English like.

Synonyms

delight, ;, abound, amuse, appease, assuage, beatify, beg pardon, begladden, blissen, bright, captivate, cater, cheer, cheer up, cloy, come again, compensate, conciliate, content, desire, elate, enbliss, entertain, excuse me, exhilarate, exuberate, fain, fascinate, fill, flatter, fulfill, gay, gladden, gladden someone's heart, gratify, happify, happy, hearten, humor, humour, indulge, jollify, laetificate, light up, make someone's day, measure up, mollify, pacify, pardon me, pardon#Interjection, perk up, placate, please, propitiate, provide, quench, raise someone's spirits, rejoice, sate, satiate, satisfy, say again, score, serve, slake, suffice, suit, supply, teem, turn the frown upside down, upcheer, warm someone's heart, warm the cockles of someone's heart, what, what's that, will

Scrabble Score: 8

please: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
please: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
please: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

please: valid Words With Friends Word