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Definition: Gratifying |
GratifyingAdjective1. Giving pleasure or satisfaction. 2. Occasioning pride; "a gratifying (or proud) achievement". 3. Pleasing to the mind or feeling; "sweet revenge". 4. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gratifying" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: GratifyingSynonyms: appreciated (adj), enjoyable (adj), pleasing (adj), pleasurable (adj), satisfying (adj), sweet (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pain | Adjective: causing pleasure; Verb: laetificant; pleasure-giving, pleasing, pleasant, pleasurable; agreeable; grateful, gratifying; leef, lief, acceptable; welcome, welcome as the roses in May; welcomed; favorite; to one's taste, to one's mind, to one's liking; satisfactory; (good). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gratifying |
| English words defined with "gratifying": fastness ♦ gratification, gratifyingly ♦ humoring ♦ indulgence, indulging ♦ pampering ♦ Relishable ♦ satisfyingly, sensual, speed, sultry, swiftness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gratifying": Cars ♦ Floating ♦ Lamp ♦ Mummy ♦ October ♦ Pandemonium. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "gratifying": gratify. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It is most gratifying that your enthusiasm for our planet continues unabated (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The Brewster manner was always affable and his faculty of remembering old acquaintances was gratifying. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized nations as medicine, and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent pigment. He is handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals. By means of the Mummy, mankind, it is said, Attests to the gods its respect for the dead. We plunder his tomb, be he sinner or saint, Distil him for physic and grind him for paint, Exhibit for money his poor, shrunken frame, And with levity flock to the scene of the shame. O, tell me, ye gods, for the use of my rhyme: For respecting the dead what's the limit of time? Scopas Brune |
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John McCain | The most wonderful experience of my entire life. The most magnificent, the most gratifying. I cannot tell you how much I loved that experience. |
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James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Equally gratifying is it to witness the increased harmony of opinion which pervades our Union. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The report of the PostMaster General presents a gratifying picture of the condition of the Post Office Department. |
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| "Gratifying" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 83.85% of the time. "Gratifying" is used about 130 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 83.85% | 109 | 31,132 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 15.38% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.77% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 130 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "gratifying": ego-gratifying. | |
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| Language | Translations for "gratifying"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | ممتع (delightful, engaging, enjoyable, entertaining, fine, good, interesting, lovely, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, refreshing, sapid, sightly, what fun). (various references) | |
Chinese | 满足 (Contented, gratified, gratify, suffice, Sufficed, Sufficing). (various references) | |
Czech | potìšitelný (heartwarming), milý (agreeable, appealing, bonny, congenial, dear, decent, heartthrob, kind, lovable, love, man, nice, own, winning). (various references) | |
French | contentant. (various references) | |
German | erfreulich (beautifully, cheerful, cheering, enjoyable, joyful, pleasant, welcome). (various references) | |
Hungarian | örömteli (glad, gladsome, joyful, joyous). (various references) | |
Italian | gratificante (rewarding), lusinghiero (allyring, complimentary, flattering, tempting), letificante (enjoyable). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 悦ばしい (delightful, joyful). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | よろ"ばしい (delightful, happy, joyful, joyous). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atifyinggray.(various references) | |
Romanian | plãcut (agreeable, cheerful, comely, dulcet, fine, genial, genially, gladsome, good, goodly, grateful, gratefully, handsome, homey, kindly, likable, listenable, merry, neat, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, smooth, snug, sweet), linguşitor (adulatory, bootlicker, cajoler, cajoling, crawler, encomiast, fawning, flatterer, flattering, flunkey, ingratiating, oilily, reptile, servile, sleek, smoothie, spaniel, supple, supply, sycophant, toad, toad-eater, toad-eating, toady, yes man), agreabil (agreeable, agreeably, attractive, boon, charming, cheerful, delightful, enjoyable, genial, genially, good, gratefully, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, smooth-faced), îmbucurãtor (glad, gladdening, good, happy). (various references) | |
Russian | удовлетворять обнадеживающий. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prijatan (agreeable, bonny, conversable, cosy, cozy, delectable, enjoyable, gratified, jolly, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, savory, savoury, welcome). (various references) | |
Swedish | tillfredsställande (gratification, indulgence, satiation, satisfaction, satisfactory, satisfying, well-rounded). (various references) | |
Turkish | tatminkâr (comfortable, famous, favorable, favourable, grateful, satisfactory), memnuniyet verici (pleasing, satisfactory), iyi (agreeable, all right, alright, b, comfortable, decent, decently, fair, fine, good, great, happy, just, kind, o.k., ok, okay, sound, well, well enough). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | l m vừa lòng, l m h i lòng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | iucundus, suave, suavem, suavi, suavis, suavissimi, suavissimos, suavissimum, suavissimus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gratifying": gratifyingly. (additional references) | |
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"Gratifying" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gratifing, gratifiying. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gratifying" (pronounced gra"tufī'ing) |
| 8 | -r a" t u f ī' i ng | ratifying. |
| 6 | -t u f ī' i ng | certifying, fortifying, identifying, justifying, mystifying, notifying, quantifying, rectifying, stultifying, testifying. |
| 5 | -u f ī' i ng | amplifying, clarifying, classifying, codifying, disqualifying, diversifying, edifying, electrifying, exemplifying, falsifying, gentrifying, glorifying, horrifying, intensifying, magnifying, modifying, mummifying, nullifying, oversimplifying, purifying, qualifying, reclassifying, signifying, simplifying, solidifying, specifying, terrifying, unifying, verifying. |
| 4 | -f ī' i ng | satisfying, unsatisfying. |
| 3 | -ī' i ng | multiplying, occupying, outlying. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-g-g-i-i-n-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: ratifying. | |
-2 letters: grafting, grifting, gyrating, triaging. | |
-3 letters: airting, fairing, fraying, gaiting, gifting, girting, gratify, grating, graying, ingraft, nigrify, nitrify, rafting, rifting, ringgit. | |
-4 letters: airing, faring, fating, faying, firing, fringy, frying, gantry, gating, grainy, gratin, gyring, ignify, raging, ratify, rating, raying, taring, tiring, trying, tyring. | |
-5 letters: afrit, aging, angry, fagin, faint, fairy, garni, giant, graft, grain. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-g-g-i-i-n-r-t-y" | |
+2 letters: gratifyingly. | |
+5 letters: transmogrifying. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Spoken 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Bibliography |
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