Pleasing vs Welcome - What's the difference?
pleasing | welcome | Related terms |
pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing."
* (Isaac Barrow)
To affirm or greet the arrival of someone, especially by saying "Welcome!".
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud,
To accept something willingly or gladly.
Whose arrival is a cause of joy; received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company.
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*(William Cowper) (1731-1800)
*:When the glad soul is made Heaven's welcome guest.
Producing gladness.
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*, chapter=7
, title= Free to have or enjoy gratuitously.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
The act of greeting someone’s arrival, especially by saying "Welcome!"; reception.
The utterance of such a greeting.
Kind reception of a guest or newcomer.
* Shenstone
* South
Pleasing is a related term of welcome.
As adjectives the difference between pleasing and welcome
is that pleasing is agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification while welcome is whose arrival is a cause of joy; received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company.As nouns the difference between pleasing and welcome
is that pleasing is pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing" while welcome is the act of greeting someone’s arrival, especially by saying "welcome!"; reception.As verbs the difference between pleasing and welcome
is that pleasing is while welcome is to affirm or greet the arrival of someone, especially by saying "welcome!".As an interjection welcome is
.pleasing
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*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
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(head)Anagrams
*welcome
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Verb
(welcom)Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“A very welcome , kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing.
Noun
(en noun)- We entered the house and found a ready welcome .
- his warmest welcome at an inn
- Truth finds an entrance and a welcome too.