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| 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: | amends |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compensation |
| Synonyms: | apology, atonement, indemnity, recompense, redress, reparation, reprisal, requital, restitution, restoration, satisfaction, expiation, indemnification, quittance |
| Main Entry: | atonement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compensation |
| Synonyms: | amends, payment, penance, recompense, redemption, redress, reparation, restitution, satisfaction, expiation, indemnification, propitiation |
| Main Entry: | compensation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | repayment; rectification |
| Synonyms: | advantage, allowance, amends, atonement, benefit, bonus, bread*, consideration, coverage, deserts*, earnings, fee*, gain, honorarium, indemnity, meet, pay, payment, payoff, premium, profit, reciprocity, reckoning, recompense, redress, reimbursement, remuneration, reparation, reprisal, requital, restitution, reward, salary, salt, satisfaction, scale, settlement, shake, stipend, take*, wage, counterclaim, damages, defrayal, indemnification, quittance, recoupment, remittal, remittance, take-home |
| Antonyms: | damage, deprivation, fine, forfeiture, loss, penalty |
* = 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: | due |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expected reward |
| Synonyms: | claim, comeuppance, compensation, deserts*, interest, need, payment, perquisite, prerogative, privilege, rate, recompense, repayment, reprisal, retaliation, retribution, revenge, right, satisfaction, title, vengeance, be in line for, entitlement, guerdon, merits, rights, what is coming to one |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | emotion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental state |
| Synonyms: | affect, affection, agitation, anger, ardor, commotion, concern, desire, despair, despondency, disturbance, drive, ecstasy, elation, empathy, excitement, feeling, fervor, grief, gut reaction, happiness, inspiration, joy, love, melancholy, passion, perturbation, pride, rage, remorse, sadness, satisfaction, sensation, sensibility, sentiment, shame, sorrow, sympathy, thrill, tremor, vehemence, warmth, zeal, affectivity, excitability, responsiveness, sensitiveness, vibes |
| Antonyms: | physicality |
| Main Entry: | entertainment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amusement, pleasure |
| Synonyms: | ball*, bash*, big time*, blast*, celebration, cheer, delight, dissipation, distraction, diversion, enjoyment, feast, frolic, fun, gaiety, game, high time*, merriment, merrymaking, party, pastime, picnic, play, recreation, relaxation, relief, revelry, satisfaction, shindig*, sport, spree, surprise, treat, blow out*, clambake, divertissement, fun and games, good time, grins, laughs, leisure activity, lots of laughs, regalement, wingding |
| Antonyms: | chore, drudgery, labor, task, work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exultation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celebration, reveling |
| Synonyms: | delight, elation, glee, glory, happiness, joy, jubilation, merriment, rejoicing, satisfaction, transport, triumph, crowing, gloating, high spirits, joyousness, jubilance |
| Antonyms: | discouragement |
| 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: | indulgence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | luxury; gratification |
| Synonyms: | allowance, appeasement, attention, courtesy, endurance, excess, extravagance, favor, fondness, forbearance, fulfillment, goodwill, gratifying, hedonism, intemperance, kindness, leniency, partiality, patience, pleasing, privilege, satisfaction, service, tolerance, understanding, babying, coddling, favoring, fondling, immoderation, intemperateness, kowtowing, lenience, pampering, permissiveness, petting, placating, profligacy, profligateness, satiation, spoiling, toadying, toleration, treating |
| Antonyms: | abstention, care, moderation, temperance |
| 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: | pay |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | earnings from employment |
| Synonyms: | allowance, bacon*, bread*, commission, compensation, consideration, fee, hire*, honorarium, income, indemnity, payment, perquisite, pittance, proceeds, profit, reckoning, recompense, redress, reimbursement, remuneration, reparation, requital, return, reward, salary, satisfaction, scale, settlement, stipend, wage, wages, defrayment, emoluments, meed, recompensation, stipendium, take-home, takings |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | recompense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something returned, paid back |
| Synonyms: | amends, atonement, compensation, cue, emolument, gravy*, indemnity, pay, payment, recovery, redemption, redress, remuneration, reparation, repayment, requital, restitution, return, reward, salvo, satisfaction, tip, wages, bus fare, damages, expiation, indemnification, overcompensation, propitiation, quittance, recoupment, retrieval, retrievement, solatium, sweetener |
| Antonyms: | take |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | redress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, compensation |
| Synonyms: | aid, amendment, amends, assistance, atonement, change, correction, cure, ease, indemnity, justice, payment, recompense, reformation, rehabilitation, relief, remedy, remission, remodeling, renewal, repair, reparation, reprisal, requital, restitution, retribution, return, revision, reward, satisfaction, vengeance, balancing, conciliation, offsetting, quittance, rectification, reestablishment, reworking |
| Antonyms: | hurt, injury |
| Main Entry: | refund |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | returned money |
| Synonyms: | allowance, compensation, consolation, discharge, discount, kickback, payment, rebate, reimbursement, remuneration, repayment, restitution, retribution, return, satisfaction, settlement, acquittance, give-back, give-up, money back |
| Notes: | a rebate is a partial repayment, whereas a refund is a repayment of the total purchase price |
| Main Entry: | relief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | remedy, aid; relaxation |
| Synonyms: | abatement, allayment, alleviation, amelioration, appeasement, assistance, assuagement, balm, break, breather, cheer, comfort, comforting, consolation, contentment, cure, deliverance, diversion, ease, easement, extrication, fix, hand, happiness, help, letup, lift, lightening, load off one's mind, maintenance, mitigation, mollification, palliative, quick fix*, refreshment, release, remission, reprieve, respite, rest, restfulness, satisfaction, softening, solace, succor, support, sustenance |
| Antonyms: | damage, hurt, injury, pain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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