Gratify

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please.
  • v. To give what is desired to; indulge: gratified her curiosity.
  • v. Archaic To reward.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To please.
  • v. To make content, to satisfy.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge
  • v. To requite; to recompense.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To please; give pleasure to; delight; satisfy; indulge.
  • To requite or reward voluntarily; also, to give a gratuity to.
  • Synonyms Gratify, Indulge, Humor. To gratify is a more positive act than to indulge or to humor. Gratify is most often used in a good sense; indulge, most often in a bad one. Humor expresses an easy or good-natured compliance or management, ordinarily neither weak nor evil: as, to humor a person's eccentricities.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make happy or satisfied
  • v. yield (to); give satisfaction to
  • Verb Form
    gratified    gratifies    gratifying   
    Variant
    gratified   
    Hyponym
    content    please    delight   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    recompense    requite    humor please    indulge    delight    please    gladden    grant   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    beatify    ratify    stratify   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts