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pleased

adj
/pliːzd/

Etymology

From Middle English plesed, iplesed (past participle) and Middle English plesede (preterit), both equivalent to please + -ed.

  1. inherited from plesede
  2. inherited from plesed

Definitions

  1. Happy, content.

    • She was pleased about her exam results.
    • I’m pleased to meet you at last.
    • They seemed pleased by the unexpected gift.

  2. simple past and past participle of please

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at pleased. 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.

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

7 hops · closes at pleased

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