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displease

verb
/dɪsˈpliːz/

Etymology

English dis- + please, from Middle English displesen, from Anglo-Norman despleisir, desplere, from Old French desplere (des- + plere).

  1. derived from desplere
  2. derived from despleisir
  3. derived from displesen

Definitions

  1. To make not pleased

    To make not pleased; to cause a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to vex slightly.

    • The boy's rudeness displeased me.
    • I felt displeased with the boy.
    • Wilt thou be displeased at us forever: and wilt thou stretch out thy wrath from one generation to another?

  2. To give displeasure or offense.

  3. To fail to satisfy

    To fail to satisfy; to miss of.

    • I shall displease my ends else.

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Derived

displeaser

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at displease. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01displease02disagreeable03displeasing04dislikable05displeasure06displeased

A definitional loop anchored at displease. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at displease

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA