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UK
/ɡɹˈætɪfˌaɪɪŋ/
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[ US /ˈɡɹætəˌfaɪɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹætəˌfaɪɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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affording satisfaction or pleasure
good printing makes a book more pleasurable to read
the company was enjoyable
found her praise gratifying
full of happiness and pleasurable excitement -
pleasing to the mind or feeling
sweet revenge
How To Use gratifying In A Sentence
- Andwhile chart success is gratifying, B.o. B is just as pleased that he's been ableto achieve it on what he has come to realise are his own terms. B.o.B: The rapper who put the romance back into hip-hop
- Being with my patient over an 18 month period was not always easy, or gratifying.
- Its practice of paying the men their cash wages only once a month—a violation of Nevada law, which mandated semimonthly pay envelopes—guaranteed that the demand for scrip would remain robust and thus that the company store would continue to do “exceptionally good business with very gratifying profits,” as the Big Six board was informed that summer. Colossus
- Turning over a new leaf How gratifying to learn that lots of us have disgusting salad drawers. Times, Sunday Times
- The most gratifying thing about starting this blog has been the opportunity to get acquainted with so many smart and charming people.
- There are about 220 students following the courses and the epistolary relationship with the students is both edifying and gratifying.
- As a young man, St. Augustine was well practiced in gratifying the desires of his fallen nature.
- Is there anything more gratifying than accepting a wrongdoer's humble apologies with Queenly dignity and good nature? Times, Sunday Times
- It is gratifying to learn that you were a revolutionary in your youth. Times, Sunday Times
- On the grounds of Disneyland itself, the food is the instantly gratifying kind - loaded with fat, like hot dogs, potato chips and deep-fried chimichangas, or sugar, like the ubiquitous soda pop and ice cream treats.