HARD TO PLEASE

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does hard to please mean? 

• HARD TO PLEASE (adjective)
  The adjective HARD TO PLEASE has 1 sense:

1. (of persons) fussy and demanding

  Familiarity information: HARD TO PLEASE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARD TO PLEASE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of persons) fussy and demanding

Synonyms:

hard-to-please; hard to please

Context example:

was very hard to please

Similar:

demanding (requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill)

 Context examples 

I don’t want to say a word against my own sister, but she was always meddlesome and hard to please, was Sarah.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Every man on board seemed well content, and they must have been hard to please if they had been otherwise, for it is my belief there was never a ship's company so spoiled since Noah put to sea.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I only loved you all the more, and I worked hard to please you, and I gave up billiards and everything you didn't like, and waited and never complained, for I hoped you'd love me, though I'm not half good enough...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)