Gratify

Word GRATIFY
Character 7
Hyphenation grat i fy
Pronunciations /ˈɡrætɪfaɪ/

Definitions and meanings of "Gratify"

What do we mean by gratify?

To please or satisfy: synonym: please. transitive verb

To give in to (a desire); indulge. transitive verb

To reward. transitive verb

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.

To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge transitive verb

To requite; to recompense. transitive verb

To please. verb

To make content, to satisfy. verb

Make happy or satisfied verb

Yield (to); give satisfaction to verb

To please.

To make content; to satisfy.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Gratify

The word "gratify" in example sentences

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. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

And my husband will be happy in the enjoyment of every expensive taste which a poor man call gratify, for the first time in his life. ❋ Wilkie Collins (1856)

(26 May) was thought a fitting opportunity for asking for a further loan of £100,000 to enable her majesty to pay and "gratify" the seamen who had so gallantly warded off invasion and to refit the fleet. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Their victory over difficulties affords the most rational cause of triumph, and the attainment of new ideas leads to incalculable riches, such as gratify the glorious avarice of aspiring and comprehensive minds. ❋ George Crabbe (1793)

Weiner used social media to gratify his needs with people he never touched. ❋ RJ (2011)

Mavis is the classic narcissist: cut off from objective reality, lacking any concern for other people, insecure in private but willing in public to ride roughshod over anyone and everything in order to gratify her whims. ❋ Govindini Murty (2011)

Another mother described herself as 'constantly upset', but making a Herculean effort to gratify her year 14-year-old daughter anyway. ❋ Susan Shapiro Barash (2011)

He will have FEWER personal attachments to gratify, than a body of men who may each be supposed to have an equal number; and will be so much the less liable to be misled by the sentiments of friendship and of affection. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Such a mission, he believed, would not only advance the cause of science but enhance American prestige, polish the Navy's image and "gratify the whole Christian world" not to mention impel his own becalmed career. ❋ Gerard Helferich (2011)

His personal habits were simple; but as a lover of art, with means to gratify his taste, he surrounded himself in his various splendid homes with much that was artistic and beautiful. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. ❋ Superversive (2010)

Being offered several times, refusing politely, then at last "Maybe just one, they look soooo good!" was supposed to gratify the hostess into thinking that she really was such a good cook, she'd managed to overcome the ladylike appetite ( "I only exist on air") of the visitor, and the visitor maintains her rep for not being greedy. ❋ Mrissa (2010)

Savaging the GOP's deficit-reduction plan as "radical" and "nothing serious" may fire up Daily Kos bloggers and gratify Nancy Pelosi. ❋ Karl Rove (2011)

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