Gratify

English

Verb

Gratify (third-person singular simple present gratifies, present participle Gratifying, simple past and past participle gratified)

1. To please; to make content; to satisfy.

Derived terms

• gratification
• gratifying

Adverbs for Gratify

lustfully; sexually; aesthetically; profoundly; adequately; personally; sensually; intellectually; emotionally; innocently.

Thesaurus

achieve inner harmony, allay, appease, assuage, baby, board, bread, cater to, cheer, coddle, compensate, content, cosset, delectate, delight, dine, do proud, elate, favor, feast, feed, flush, fodder, forage, give way to, gladden, grass, graze, happify, humor, indulge, make proud, meat, mess, mollycoddle, oblige, pamper, pasture, please, pleasure, provision, put at ease, quench, recompense, regale, requite, reward, sate, satiate, satisfy, set at ease, slake, spoil, sustain, wine and dine, yield to

Etymology

From French gratifier < Latin gratificare (“to do a favor to, oblige, please, gratify”) < gratus (“kind, pleasing”) + facere (“to make”).

Translations

to please; to make content; to satisfy

Armenian: գոհացնել (hy) Finnish: ilahduttaa, miellyttää, tehdä tyytyväiseksi

French: gratifier (fr) Japanese: 満足させる (ja) (まんぞくさせる, manzoku saseru), 満たす (ja) (みたす, mitasu)

External links

• Gratify in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Gratify in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911