Word Meanings - GRATIFICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite; as, the gratification of the palate, of the appetites, of the senses, of the desires, of the heart. 2. That which affords pleasure; satisfaction; enjoyment;

Additional info about word: GRATIFICATION

1. The act of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite; as, the gratification of the palate, of the appetites, of the senses, of the desires, of the heart. 2. That which affords pleasure; satisfaction; enjoyment; fruition: delight. 3. A reward; a recompense; a gratuity. Bp. Morton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GRATIFICATION)

• Delight
• Enjoyment
• pleasure
• happiness
• transport
• ecstasy
• joy
• gratification
• gladness
• rapture
• bliss
• Pleasure
• sensuality
• self-indulgence
• voluptuousness
• choice
• preference
• vill
• inclination
• purpose
• determination
• favor
• satisfaction
• indulgent

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of GRATIFICATION)

• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake

Related words: (words related to GRATIFICATION)

• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• FAVOR
  Partiality; bias. Bouvier. 9. A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received. 10. pl. (more info) L. favor, fr. favere to be favorable, cf. Skr. bhavaya to further, foster, causative of bhBe.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• BLISS
  Orig., blithesomeness; gladness; now, the highest degree of happiness; blessedness; exalted felicity; heavenly joy. An then at last our bliss Full and perfect is. Milton. Syn. -- Blessedness; felicity; beatitude; happiness; joy; enjoyment.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• CHOICELY
  1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak. 2. In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton.
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• TRANSPORTABILITY
  The quality or state of being transportable.
• FAVORITE
  Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. Farquhar. (more info) p.p. of OF. favorir, cf. It. favorito, frm. favorita, fr. favorire to 1. A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with
• PURPOSE
  1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer.
• FAVORABLE
  1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1. 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate;
• TRANSPORTED
  Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.
• CHANCEFUL
  Hazardous. Spenser.
• TRANSPORT
  1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt. 2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish. 3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as
• DELIGHTOUS
  Delightful. Rom. of R.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• AVENTURE
  A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire. (more info) 1. Accident; chance; adventure. Chaucer.
• ARCHCHANCELLOR
  A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.
• ADVENTURESS
  A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
• SELF-DETERMINATION
  Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity.