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Synonyms for gratify
ˈgræt əˌfaɪgrat·i·fy
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Wiktionary
English Synonyms and Antonyms
gratify
To entertain, in the sense here considered, is to engage and pleasantly occupy the attention; to amuse is to occupy the attention in an especially bright and cheerful way, often with that which excites merriment or laughter; as, he entertained us with an amusing story. To divert is to turn from serious thoughts or laborious pursuits to something that lightly and agreeably occupies the mind; one may be entertained or amused who has nothing serious or laborious from which to be diverted. To recreate, literally to re-create, is to engage mind or body in some pleasing activity that restores strength and energy for serious work. To beguile is, as it were, to cheat into cheer and comfort by something that insensibly draws thought or feeling away from pain or disquiet. We beguile a weary hour, cheer the despondent, divert the preoccupied, enliven a dull evening or company, gratify our friends' wishes, entertain, interest, please a listening audience, occupy idle time, disport ourselves when merry, recreate when worn with toil; we amuse ourselves or others with whatever pleasantly passes the time without special exertion, each according to his taste.
Synonyms:
amuse, beguile, cheer, delight, disport, divert, enliven, entertain, interest, occupy, please, recreateAntonyms:
annoy, bore, busy, disquiet, distract, disturb, tire, weary
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
gratify
Synonyms:
please, satisfy, indulge, humorAntonyms:
displease, dissatisfy, disappoint, stint, discipline, inure, harden, deprive, deny
Princeton's WordNet
satisfy, gratifyverb
make happy or satisfied
Synonyms:
pander, fulfil, fulfill, satisfy, meet, indulge, live up to, fillgratify, pander, indulgeverb
yield (to); give satisfaction to
Synonyms:
pander, mollycoddle, cosset, luxuriate, satisfy, indulge, spoil, procure, baby, cocker, coddle, featherbed, pimp, pamper
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Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #145 | please | |
| #653 | interest | |
| #669 | baby | |
| #859 | meet | |
| #2291 | fill | |
| #3971 | humor | |
| #6680 | satisfy | |
| #9338 | delight | |
| #10494 | fulfill | |
| #12252 | cheer | |
| #14008 | entertain | |
| #15899 | occupy | |
| #16587 | pimp | |
| #18875 | fulfil | |
| #20396 | indulge | |
| #21436 | spoil | |
| #25011 | procure | |
| #26034 | divert | |
| #26041 | recreate | |
| #27618 | cocker | |
| #31815 | pamper | |
| #37190 | amuse | |
| #75952 | enliven | |
| #76220 | gladden | |
| #81018 | pander | |
| #87051 | gratify | |
| #99054 | featherbed | |
| #145095 | beguile | |
| #162842 | coddle | |
| #169405 | luxuriate |
How to use gratify in a sentence?
If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or our country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share.
If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
This is a political decision, they want to gratify the Hindus and harass the Muslims.
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Translations for gratify
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- tilfredsstilleDanish
- befriedigenGerman
- ικανοποιώGreek
- ilahduttaa, tyydyttää, miellyttääFinnish
- sásaimhIrish
- kielégítHungarian
- գոհացնելArmenian
- memuaskanIndonesian
- gratificareItalian
- 満たす, 満足Japanese
- gratificariLatin
- bevredigenDutch
- tilfredsstilleNorwegian
- satisfazerPortuguese
- satisfaceRomanian
- удовлетворить, угождать, удовлетворять, ублажить, ублажать, угодитьRussian
- tillfredsställaSwedish
- தணித்துக்Tamil
- memnun etmekTurkish
- làm hài lòngVietnamese
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