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Gratifying   /grˈætəfˌaɪɪŋ/   Listen
Gratifying

adjective
1.
Pleasing to the mind or feeling.  Synonym: sweet.
2.
Affording satisfaction or pleasure.  Synonyms: enjoyable, pleasurable.  "Found her praise gratifying" , "Full of happiness and pleasurable excitement" , "Good printing makes a book more pleasurable to read"



Gratify

verb
(past & past part. gratified; pres. part. gratifying)
1.
Make happy or satisfied.  Synonym: satisfy.
2.
Yield (to); give satisfaction to.  Synonyms: indulge, pander.






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"Gratifying" Quotes from Famous Books



... no other than Miss Walton. She had heard the old man's history from Harley, as we have already related it. Curiosity, or some other motive, made her desirous to see his grandchildren; this she had an opportunity of gratifying soon, the children, in some of their walks, having strolled as far as her father's avenue. She put several questions to both; she was delighted with the simplicity of their answers, and promised, that if they continued to be good children, and do as their grandfather ...
— The Man of Feeling • Henry Mackenzie

... wakefulness, brother. Now don't get fidgetty. I'm real satisfied to lie here and think of my blessedness and comfort. It's gratifying to recall all your possessions in the night. They say worries stand out clearest then, but with me it's the other way. My troubles just vanish and every living, breathing pleasantness comes to the fore. Now, you, for example, Levi. I was praising God about you as you knocked. You're ...
— A Son of the Hills • Harriet T. Comstock

... to have his peculiar ambition," he wrote. "Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as being truly esteemed by my fellow men by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed. I am young and unknown to many of you. I was born, and have ever remained, in the most humble walks of life. I have no wealthy or popular relations or friends to recommend me. My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent ...
— A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines - A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. • Clayton Edwards

... from the home of his beloved, ruminating over the strange disclosures of the day and how satisfactory and gratifying they were to him, his state of mind was such that he was eager for the completion of the more serious business that was impending so that he might return to her who had flooded his soul with new and sudden delight. ...
— The Loyalist - A Story of the American Revolution • James Francis Barrett

... Mrs. Barkley said, "but it will be gratifying to her to be noticed. I'll come, William, and bring a cake. And Maria Welwood shall tell Ezra to ...
— The Awakening of Helena Richie • Margaret Deland


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