Seemly vs Pleasing - What's the difference?
seemly | pleasing | Related terms |
(of behavior) Appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming.
* Shakespeare
* Hooker
Appropriately, fittingly.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing."
* (Isaac Barrow)
Seemly is a related term of pleasing.
As adjectives the difference between seemly and pleasing
is that seemly is (of behavior) appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming while pleasing is agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.As an adverb seemly
is appropriately, fittingly.As a noun pleasing is
pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing".As a verb pleasing is
.seemly
English
Adjective
(er)- His behavior was seemly , as befits a gentleman.
- I am a woman, lacking wit / To make a seemly answer to such persons.
- Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies.
Synonyms
* appositeAntonyms
* unseemlyDerived terms
* * * seemlinessAdverb
(en adverb)- The great earthes wombe they open to the sky, / And with sad Cypresse seemely it embraue [...].
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