Pleasing vs Cheerful - What's the difference?
pleasing | cheerful | Related terms |
pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing."
* (Isaac Barrow)
Noticeably happy and optimistic.
Bright and pleasant.
:
*
*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
Pleasing is a related term of cheerful.
As adjectives the difference between pleasing and cheerful
is that pleasing is agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification while cheerful is noticeably happy and optimistic.As a noun pleasing
is pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing".As a verb pleasing
is .pleasing
English
Synonyms
*Noun
- What more palpable confutation can there be of human vanity and arrogance, of all lofty imaginations, all presumptuous confidences, all turgid humours, all fond self-pleasings and self-admirings, than is that tragical cross