pleasingly

[plee-zing]

pleas·ing

[plee-zing]
adjective
giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English plesing. See please, -ing2

pleas·ing·ly, adverb
pleas·ing·ness, noun
half-pleas·ing, adjective
self-pleas·ing, adjective
un·pleas·ing, adjective


pleasant, charming, delightful, engaging. See interesting.

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Pleasingly is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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pleasing (ˈpliːzɪŋ)
 
adj
giving pleasure; likable or gratifying
 
'pleasingly
 
adv
 
'pleasingness
 
n

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