| Main Entry: | gratify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give pleasure; satisfy |
Synonyms: |
appease, arride, baby*, cater to, coddle, content, delectate, delight, do one proud, do the trick, enchant, favor, fill the bill, fulfill*, get one's kicks, gladden, hit the spot, humor, indulge, make a hit, make happy, oblige, pamper, please, recompense, requite, thrill |
Antonyms: |
annoy, disappoint, disturb, frustrate, offend, pain, upset |
| Main Entry: | gratifying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | satisfying |
Synonyms: |
delightful, enjoyable, pleasant, pleasing |
| Main Entry: | accommodate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | perform service |
Synonyms: |
afford, aid, arrange, assist, avail, benefit, bow, comfort, convenience, defer, favor, furnish, gratify, help, humor, indulge, oblige, pamper, please, provide, serve, settle, submit, suit, supply, support, sustain, yield |
Antonyms: |
bar, block, frustrate, hinder, impede, limit, obstruct, prevent, stop |
| Main Entry: | agreeable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pleasing |
Synonyms: |
acceptable, dandy, delicious, delightful, enjoyable, fair, fine, gratifying, hunky-dory, mild, nice, peach, peachy*, pleasant, pleasurable, pleasureful, pussycat, ready, satisfying, spiffy, swell*, to one's liking, to one's taste, welcome |
Antonyms: |
disagreeable, discordant, distasteful, harsh, hateful, mean, nasty, offensive, unpleasant |
| Main Entry: | amuse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | entertain; make laugh |
Synonyms: |
break one up, charm, cheer, crack up, delight, divert, fracture, gladden, grab*, gratify, interest, kill*, knock dead, make roll in the aisles, occupy, panic*, please, put away, regale, slay, tickle, wow* |
| Notes: | the first meaning of amuse was 'to divert the attention of in order to mislead,' 'delude, deceive' and now means 'entertain, make smile or laugh'; bemuse means 'confuse, bewilder, puzzle' |
Antonyms: |
anger, annoy, bore, dull, tire, upset |
| Main Entry: | amusing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | entertaining, funny |
Synonyms: |
agreeable, boffo, camp, campy, charming, cheerful, cheering, comical, cut up, delightful, diverting, droll, enchanting, engaging, enjoyable, entertaining, for grins, fun, gladdening, gratifying, gut-busting, humorous, interesting, jocular, jokey, joshing, laughable, lively, merry, pleasant, pleasing, priceless, screaming, sidesplitting, too funny for words, witty |
Antonyms: |
annoying, boring, tiring, unfunny |
| Main Entry: | appease |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | satisfy, pacify |
Synonyms: |
allay, alleviate, assuage, be enough, blunt, calm, compose, conciliate, content, diminish, do*, ease, gratify, lessen, lull, make matters up, meet halfway, mitigate, mollify, patch things up, placate, propitiate, quell, quench, quiet, serve, soften, soothe, subdue, sweeten, tranquilize |
Antonyms: |
aggravate, annoy, incite, irritate, provoke, tease |
| Main Entry: | captivate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | attract, enchant |
Synonyms: |
allure, beguile, bewitch, charm, dazzle, delight, draw, enamour, enrapture, enslave, ensnare, entertain, enthrall, entrance, fascinate, gratify, grip, hold, hook, hypnotize, infatuate, intrigue, lure, magnetize, make a hit with, mesmerize, please, rope in, seduce, spellbind, sweep off one's feet, take, turn one on, vamp, wile, win |
Antonyms: |
disgust, disillusion, offend, repel, repulse |
| Main Entry: | cater |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | provide, help |
Synonyms: |
baby, coddle, cotton, furnish, gratify, humor, indulge, minister to, outfit, pamper, pander to, procure, provision, purvey, spoil, supply, victual |
| Main Entry: | content |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | please |
Synonyms: |
appease, bewitch, captivate, charm, delight, enrapture, gladden, gratify, humor, indulge, make happy, mollify, placate, reconcile, satisfy, suffice, thrill, tickle |
Antonyms: |
anger, displease, disturb, upset |