displease

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
14
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/dɪsˈpliːz/

Definition of displease

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)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?”
    “How can an operator be, at the same time, top for overall satisfaction and bottom for value for money? I turned to Anthony Smith for the answer, leaning on his 20 years running Transport Focus and its predecessors. It's commuters, he explained. "You can't please commuters, you can only not displease them."”
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verb

  1. (transitive)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?”
    “How can an operator be, at the same time, top for overall satisfaction and bottom for value for money? I turned to Anthony Smith for the answer, leaning on his 20 years running Transport Focus and its predecessors. It's commuters, he explained. "You can't please commuters, you can only not displease them."”
  2. (intransitive)To give displeasure or offense.
  3. (obsolete, transitive)To fail to satisfy; to miss of.
    “I shall displease my ends else.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

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

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