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gratification - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | gratification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | satisfaction |
| Synonyms: | delight, enjoyment, fruition, fulfillment, glee, hit, indulgence, joy, luxury, pleasure, recompense, relish, reward, thrill, kicks, regalement, sure shock |
| Antonyms: | disappointment, dissatisfaction, upset |
| Main Entry: | advantage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | benefit, favored position or circumstance |
| Synonyms: | aid, ascendancy, asset, assistance, authority, avail, blessing, boon, break, choice, comfort, convenience, dominance, edge, eminence, favor, gain, good, gratification, help, hold, improvement, influence, interest, lead, leeway, leverage, luck, mastery, odds, position, power, precedence, preference, prestige, prevalence, profit, protection, recognition, resources, return, sanction, starting, superiority, support, supremacy, upper hand*, utility, wealth, expediency, leg-up, pre-eminence |
| Notes: | advantage is a relatively favorable position; superiority of means while vantage is a position, condition, or opportunity that is likely to provide superiority or an advantage |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage, drawback, handicap, hindrance, loss, obstacle, restriction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | contentment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | comfort, happiness |
| Synonyms: | complacency, content, ease, equanimity, fulfillment, gladness, gratification, peace, pleasure, satisfaction, serenity, contentedness, repletion |
| Antonyms: | discomfort, discontent, displeasure, dissatisfaction, misery, sadness, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | delight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enjoyment, happiness |
| Synonyms: | contentment, ecstasy, enchantment, felicity, fruition, gladness, glee, gratification, hilarity, jollity, joy, mirth, pleasure, rapture, relish, satisfaction, transport, delectation, joyance |
| Antonyms: | depression, disappointment, dismay, melancholy, misery, pain, sorrow, trouble, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | flattery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | false praise, compliments |
| Synonyms: | adulation, applause, approbation, blarney*, commendation, encomium, eulogy, fawning*, flattering, gallantry, gratification, incense, laud, mush*, palaver, plaudits, puffery*, smoke*, snow*, snow job*, stroke*, sweet talk*, tribute, blandishment, bootlicking, cajolery, eyewash, flummery, fulsomeness, hokum, honeyed words, ingratiation, jive*, obsequiousness, pretty speech, servility, soft words, soft-soap, sycophancy, toadyism, truckling, unctuousness |
| Antonyms: | condemnation, criticism, denunciation, insult, offense, belittlement, castigation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fruition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | achievement, maturation |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, attainment, completion, consummation, enjoyment, fulfillment, gratification, maturity, perfection, pleasure, realization, satisfaction, success, actualization, materialization, ripeness |
| Antonyms: | failure, unfulfillment |
| Main Entry: | fulfillment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accomplishment, completion |
| Synonyms: | achievement, attainment, consummation, contentment, crowning, discharge, end, gratification, kick*, perfection, realization, carrying out, carrying through, contentedness, discharging, effecting, implementation, just the ticket, kicks observance*, you got it |
| Antonyms: | disappointment, dissatisfaction, failure, frustration, unfulfillment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | joy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great happiness, pleasure |
| Synonyms: | amusement, animation, bliss, charm, cheer, comfort, delight, diversion, ecstasy, elation, exultation, felicity, festivity, frolic, fruition, gaiety, gem, gladness, glee, good humor, gratification, hilarity, humor, indulgence, jewel, liveliness, luxury, merriment, mirth, pride, prize, rapture, refreshment, rejoicing, revelry, satisfaction, solace, sport, transport, treasure, treat, wonder, alleviation, delectation, exulting, jubilance, pride and joy, ravishment, regalement |
| Antonyms: | sadness, sorrow, unhappiness, woe |
| Main Entry: | luxury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great pleasure, indulgence |
| Synonyms: | affluence, bliss, comfort, delight, enjoyment, exorbitance, extravagance, frill, gratification, hedonism, intemperance, leisure, opulence, rarity, richness, satisfaction, splendor, treat, well-being, high living, immoderation, luxuriousness, sumptuousness |
| Antonyms: | austerity, economy, frugality |
| Main Entry: | rapture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme happiness and delight in something |
| Synonyms: | beatitude, bliss, buoyancy, cheer, cloud nine*, communion, contentment, cool*, ecstasy, elation, enchantment, enjoyment, enthusiasm, euphoria, exaltation, exhilaration, felicity, gaiety, gladness, glory, gratification, heaven, inspiration, joy, jubilation, nirvana, paradise, passion, pleasure, satisfaction, seventh heaven*, spell, transport, well-being, at-oneness, delectation, elysium, good spirits, ravishment, rhapsody |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | satisfaction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving or enjoying a state of comfort, content |
| Synonyms: | achievement, amends, amusement, atonement, bliss, cheerfulness, comfort, compensation, complacency, contentment, delight, ease, enjoyment, fulfillment, gladness, gratification, happiness, indulgence, joy, justice, peace of mind, pleasure, pride, recompense, redress, refreshment, reimbursement, relief, reparation, resolution, reward, serenity, settlement, vindication, well-being, conciliation, contentedness, good fortune, indemnification, propitiation, repletion, satiety |
| Antonyms: | discontent, dissatisfaction, need, unhappiness, want |
| Main Entry: | sweet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sugary food |
| Synonyms: | bonbon, candy, confection, confectionery, delight, dessert, enjoyment, gratification, joy, pleasure, pudding, snack, chocolate, confiture, final course, sugarplum, sweetmeat |
| Main Entry: | treat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pleasing entity or occurrence |
| Synonyms: | amusement, banquet, celebration, dainty, delicacy, delight, enjoyment, entertainment, feast, fun, gift, goody*, gratification, joy, party, pleasure, refreshment, satisfaction, surprise, sweet, thrill, tidbit |
| Antonyms: | bad fortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hedonism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sensualism |
| Synonyms: | debauchery, enjoyment, gratification, indulgence, pleasure, epicureanism |
| Main Entry: | amusement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entertaining, making someone laugh |
| Synonyms: | action, ball*, cheer, delight, diversion, enjoyment, entertainment, fun, gratification, high time*, hilarity, hoopla*, laughter, merriment, mirth, picnic*, play, pleasing, pleasure, beguilement, field day, fun and games, gladdening, grins, laughs, merry go round, regalement, whoopee |
| Antonyms: | boredom |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | comfort |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good feeling; ease |
| Synonyms: | abundance, amenity, bed of roses*, cheer, cheerfulness, complacency, contentment, convenience, creature comforts*, enjoyment, exhilaration, facility, gratification, happiness, luxury, opulence, pleasure, plenty, poise, quiet, relaxation, relief, repose, rest, satisfaction, succor, sufficiency, warmth, well-being, alleviation, assuagement, coziness, peacefulness, restfulness, snugness |
| Antonyms: | aggravation, annoyance, bother, distress, exasperation, irritation, torment, torture, botheration |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | content |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | comfort, happiness |
| Synonyms: | contentment, ease, gratification, peace, peace of mind, pleasure, satisfaction |
| Antonyms: | discontent, displeasure, unhappiness, uncomfortableness |
| Main Entry: | dissipation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amusement, entertainment, occasionally to excess |
| Synonyms: | bender*, binge, bust*, celebration, circus, distraction, diversion, gratification, party, recreation, self-indulgence, tear*, toot*, blow-out, divertissement, wingding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | peace, quiet; lack of difficulty |
| Synonyms: | affluence, bed of roses*, calm, calmness, comfort, content, contentment, easiness, enjoyment, gratification, happiness, idleness, inertia, leisure, luxury, peace of mind*, prosperity, relaxation, repose, rest, satisfaction, security, serenity, tranquility, ataraxia, inactivity, inertness, passivity, quietness, quietude, requiescence, restfulness, supinity |
| Antonyms: | difficulty, disquiet, furor, strife, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest, excitableness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enjoyment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | delight in something |
| Synonyms: | amusement, diversion, entertainment, fruition, fun, gladness, gratification, gusto, happiness, hedonism, indulgence, joy, loving, luxury, pleasure, recreation, rejoicing, relaxation, relish, satisfaction, savor, self-indulgence, thrill, triumph, zest, delectation, enjoying, sensuality |
| Antonyms: | displeasure, dissatisfaction, misery, sorrow, unhappiness, woe |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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