Gratify

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  • transitive verb. To please or satisfy: synonym: please.
  • transitive verb. To give in to (a desire); indulge.
  • transitive verb. To reward.
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge
  • transitive verb. To requite; to recompense.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To please.
  • verb. To make content, to satisfy.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. make happy or satisfied
  • verb. yield (to); give satisfaction to
  • Word Usage
    "Hence an important means towards happiness is the control of our desires, and the extinction of those that we cannot gratify, which is brought about by virtue."
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    content  delight  please  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    beatify  ratify  stratify  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    gratified  
    verb-form