GRATIFYING

enjoyable, gratifying, pleasurable

(adjective) affording satisfaction or pleasure; “the company was enjoyable”; “found her praise gratifying”; “full of happiness and pleasurable excitement”; “good printing makes a book more pleasurable to read”

gratifying, sweet

(adjective) pleasing to the mind or feeling; “sweet revenge”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

gratifying

present participle of gratify

Source: Wiktionary


GRATIFY

Grat"i*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gratified; p. pr. & vb. n. Gratifying.] Etym: [F. gratifier, L. gratificari; gratus pleasing + - ficare (in comp.) to make. See -fy.]

1. To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc. For who would die to gratify a foe Dryden.

2. To requite; to recompense. [Obs.] It remains . . . To gratify his noble service. Shak.

Syn.

– To indulge; humor please; delight; requite; recompense.

– To Gratify, Indulge, Humor. Gratify, is the generic term, and has reference simply to the pleasure communicated. To indulge a person implies that we concede something to his wishes or his weaknesses which he could not claim, and which had better, perhaps, be spared. To humor is to adapt ourselves to the varying moods, and, perhaps, caprices, of others. We gratify a child by showing him the sights of a large city; we indulge him in some extra expense on such an occasion; we humor him when he is tired and exacting.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

10 January 2025

INTERSPERSION

(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”


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International Coffee Day (September 29) is an occasion to promote and celebrate coffee as a beverage, with events occurring in places across the world. A day to promote fair trade coffee and raise awareness for the coffee growers’ plight. Other countries celebrate this event on October 1.

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