Word Meanings - ENJOY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of; to feel or perceive with pleasure; to be delighted with; as, to enjoy the dainties of a feast; to enjoy conversation. 2. To have, possess, and use with satisfaction; to occupy

Additional info about word: ENJOY

1. To take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of; to feel or perceive with pleasure; to be delighted with; as, to enjoy the dainties of a feast; to enjoy conversation. 2. To have, possess, and use with satisfaction; to occupy or have the benefit of, as a good or profitable thing, or as something desirable; as, to enjoy a free constitution and religious liberty. That the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. Num. xxxvi. 8. To enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. Heb. xi. 25. 3. To have sexual intercourse with. Milton. To enjoy one's self, to feel pleasure; to be happy.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ENJOY)

• Have
• Own
• possess
• feel
• entertain
• accept
• bear
• enjoy
• keep
• Inherit
• Occupy
• Like
• Love
• approve
• relish
• affect
• Possess
• have
• hold
• own
• Relish Like
• appreciate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ENJOY)

• Repudiate
• nauseate
• reject
• abominate
• loathe

Related words: (words related to ENJOY)

• ACCEPTABLE
  Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
• POSSESSIVE
  Of or pertaining to possession; having or indicating possession. Possessive case , the genitive case; the case of nouns and pronouns which expresses ownership, origin, or some possessive relation of one thing to another; as, Homer's admirers; the
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• ACCEPT
  To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange. Bouvier. 6. In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; bill , to agree to pay it when due. -- To accept service , to agree that a writ or
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• INHERITABILITY
  The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs. Jefferson.
• APPRECIATE
  a price, appraise; ad + pretiare to prize, pretium price. Cf. 1. To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value. To appreciate the motives of their enemies. Gibbon. 3. To raise the value of; to increase the market price of; -- opposed
• RELISHABLE
  Capable of being relished; agreeable to the taste; gratifying.
• ENJOY
  1. To take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of; to feel or perceive with pleasure; to be delighted with; as, to enjoy the dainties of a feast; to enjoy conversation. 2. To have, possess, and use with satisfaction; to occupy
• ENJOYER
  One who enjoys.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• ACCEPTOR
  One who accepts; specifically ,
• AFFECTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being affectible.
• INHERITOR
  One who inherits; an heir. Born inheritors of the dignity. Milton.
• POSSESSIONER
  1. A possessor; a property holder. "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney. 2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc.,
• AFFECTIVELY
  In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
• INHERITRIX
  See SHAK
• REJECTER
  One who rejects.
• ACCEPTATION
  1. Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable. This is saying worthy of all acceptation. 1 Tim. i. 15. Some things . . . are notwithstanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God. Hooker. 2. The meaning
• ENTERTAINER
  One who entertains.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• INAFFECTED
  Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv.
• DISPOSSESS
  To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess
• MISACCEPTATION
  Wrong acceptation; understanding in a wrong sense.