# pleased

Pronunciation: say "PLEEZD" /pliːzd/

## Adjective

1. Feeling happy and satisfied, especially about something that has happened or been done.
   - Simple: Happy and satisfied about something.
   - _The manager was pleased with how smoothly the project had gone._
   - _I'm pleased to report that all the tickets sold out within hours._

## Verb

2. Simple past and past participle of please. — simple past and past participle of please
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of please. Use this form for something that gave someone a happy feeling earlier.
   - _The chef's new menu pleased even the harshest food critics._
   - _Nothing she did ever pleased her demanding boss._

## Origin

From the Middle English past participle plesed, iplesed and preterit plesede, equivalent to please plus the suffix -ed.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/pleased (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).