Word Meanings - GRATIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc. For who would die to gratify a foe Dryden. 2. To requite; to recompense. It remains

Additional info about word: GRATIFY

1. To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc. For who would die to gratify a foe Dryden. 2. To requite; to recompense. It remains . . . To gratify his noble service. Shak. Syn. -- To indulge; humor please; delight; requite; recompense. -- To Gratify, Indulge, Humor. Gratify, is the generic term, and has reference simply to the pleasure communicated. To indulge a person implies that we concede something to his wishes or his weaknesses which he could not claim, and which had better, perhaps, be spared. To humor is to adapt ourselves to the varying moods, and, perhaps, caprices, of others. We gratify a child by showing him the sights of a large city; we indulge him in some extra expense on such an occasion; we humor him when he is tired and exacting.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GRATIFY)

• Divert
• Alter
• change
• deflect
• alienate
• delight
• please
• gratify
• entertain
• amuse
• Gladden
• rejoice
• cheer
• exhilarate
• Indulge
• Spoil
• pamper
• humor
• cherish
• bask
• revel
• grovel
• foster
• favor
• allow
• Oblige
• Compel
• coerce
• necessitate
• force
• benefit
• accommodate
• bind
• constrain
• Regale
• Feast
• refresh

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of GRATIFY)

• Conserve
• retain
• stabilitate
• fix
• clinch
• stand
• endure
• last
• hold

Related words: (words related to GRATIFY)

• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• HUMOR
  A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin. "A body full of humors." Sir W. Temple. 3. State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids
• 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.
• ALTERNATING CURRENT
  A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
• ALTERNATION
  Permutation. 3. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. Alternation of generation. See under Generation. (more info) 1. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being
• REVELLENT
  Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n.
• CHERISHMENT
  Encouragement; comfort. Rich bounty and dear cherishment. Spenser.
• PAMPERER
  One who, or that which, pampers. Cowper.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• OBLIGER
  One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• 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
• OBLIGEMENT
  Obligation. I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me. Milton.
• BENEFIT SOCIETY
  A society or association formed for mutual insurance, as among tradesmen or in labor unions, to provide for relief in sickness, old age, and for the expenses of burial. Usually called friendly society in Great Britain.
• REVEL
  See REVEAL
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• GOOD-HUMORED
  Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; good-tempered. See Good- natured.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• SUBALTERNANT
  A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2. Whately.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• MISALTER
  To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.