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GRATIFYING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Affording satisfaction or pleasure
Example:
good printing makes a book more pleasurable to read
Synonyms:
enjoyable; gratifying; pleasurable
Classified under:
Similar:
pleasant (affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Pleasing to the mind or feeling
Example:
sweet revenge
Synonyms:
gratifying; sweet
Classified under:
Similar:
pleasing (giving pleasure and satisfaction)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb gratify
Context examples:
She was particularly asked to meet Mr Elliot, and be introduced to Lady Dalrymple and Miss Carteret, who were fortunately already engaged to come; and she could not have received a more gratifying attention.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
It would really be gratifying to see them all again, and a little addition of society might be of infinite use to them; and as to yourself, you must feel yourself to be so wanted there, that you cannot in conscience—conscientious as you are—keep away, when you have the means of returning.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Which was very gratifying to him until he tried to collect. Something had gone wrong in the County Committee, and, though a rich banker and a state senator were members of it, the money was not forthcoming.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Mrs. Weston's partiality for him is very great, and, as you may suppose, most gratifying to me.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
It must be gratifying to see the money flow to you after having worked so hard.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
“Well!” said Mr. Creakle, “this is very gratifying. You have addressed Mr. Copperfield, Twenty Seven. Do you wish to say anything further to him?”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Such an opportunity of being with Edward and his family was, above all things, the most material to her interest, and such an invitation the most gratifying to her feelings!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
It was gratifying to have inspired unconsciously so strong an affection.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
He who delights the most lives the most, and your dreams and unrealities are less disturbing to you and more gratifying than are my facts to me.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
At six o'clock, the general having taken his coffee, the carriage again received them; and so gratifying had been the tenor of his conduct throughout the whole visit, so well assured was her mind on the subject of his expectations, that, could she have felt equally confident of the wishes of his son, Catherine would have quitted Woodston with little anxiety as to the How or the When she might return to it.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
