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Gratified vs Pleasing - What's the difference?

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Gratified is a related term of pleasing.


As verbs the difference between gratified and pleasing

is that gratified is (gratify) while pleasing is .

As an adjective pleasing is

agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.

As a noun pleasing is

pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing".

gratified

English

Verb

(head)
  • (gratify)

    • gratify

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To please.
  • To make content, to satisfy.

    • Synonyms

    * gladden, queem

    Derived terms

    * gratification * gratifying

    Antonyms

  • To anger, disquiet, fluster, intimidate, or any of the like

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    pleasing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.

    • Synonyms

    *

    Noun

  • pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing."
  • * (Isaac Barrow)
    • What more palpable confutation can there be of human vanity and arrogance, of all lofty imaginations, all presumptuous confidences, all turgid humours, all fond self-pleasings and self-admirings, than is that tragical cross

    Related terms

    * pleasant * pleasantly * satisfaction

    Verb

    (head)

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