Word that means enjoy

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. enjoy

   In the old sense of wonder, admire is practically obsolete; the word now expresses a delight and approval, in which the element of wonder unconsciously mingles. We admire beauty in nature and art, delight in the innocent happiness of children, enjoy books or society, a walk or a dinner. We approve what is excellent, applaud heroic deeds, esteem the good, love our friends. We honor and respect noble character wherever found; we revere and venerate it in the aged. We extol the goodness and adore the majesty and power of God.

   Synonyms:
   admire, adore, applaud, approve, delight in, esteem, esteem, extol, honor, love, respect, revere, venerate, wonder

   Antonyms:
   abhor, abominate, contemn, despise, detest, dislike, execrate, hate, ridicule, scorn

   Preposition:
   Admire at may still very rarely be found in the old sense of wonder at.

Princeton’s WordNetRate these synonyms:2.6 / 7 votes

1. enjoy, bask, relish, savor, savourverb

   derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in

   «She relished her fame and basked in her glory»

   Synonyms:
   love, bask, enjoy, taste, revel, savour, relish, delight, savor

   Antonyms:
   endure, suffer

2. enjoyverb

   have benefit from

   «enjoy privileges»

   Synonyms:
   relish, delight, savor, revel, love, savour, bask

   Antonyms:
   endure, suffer

3. love, enjoyverb

   get pleasure from

   «I love cooking»

   Synonyms:
   jazz, have sex, do it, enjoy, hump, bang, screw, relish, have intercourse, sleep together, bonk, know, roll in the hay, get it on, lie with, have it away, be intimate, eff, delight, bask, love, have a go at it, get laid, bed, make out, have it off, savour, savor, sleep with, revel, make love

   Antonyms:
   suffer, endure

4. enjoyverb

   have for one’s benefit

   «The industry enjoyed a boom»

   Synonyms:
   relish, delight, savor, revel, love, savour, bask

   Antonyms:
   suffer, endure

5. delight, enjoy, revelverb

   take delight in

   «he delights in his granddaughter»

   Synonyms:
   ravish, enjoy, savour, please, relish, transport, enthrall, make merry, enchant, bask, jollify, savor, whoop it up, racket, delight, love, make whoopie, wassail, make happy, enrapture, revel, enthral

   Antonyms:
   endure, suffer

Matched Categories

1. • Experience
   • Like
   • Use

How to pronounce ENJOY?

How to say ENJOY in sign language?

How to use ENJOY in a sentence?

1. Jim Stewart:

   Did you shorten my life now? I want to retire and enjoy it. How are we going to enjoy it? You burned me, you’ve made me an angry man.

2. Kate Thomas:

   An orgasm is important for women’s desire, if you don’t have spontaneous desire but want to be sexual and know you’re going to enjoy it, you’re ready to do it. In a sense, the desire becomes amplified. But if it’s always a disappointing experience, you won’twant to do it.

3. Mahabharata:

   Enjoy thou the prosperity of others, Although thyself unprosperous; noble men Take pleasure in their neighbours? happiness.

4. Vijay Samuel Benjamin:

   Allowing God to have His way in our lives is the greatest blessing we can ever enjoy!

5. Camille Paglia:

   Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.

• استمتعArabic
• həzz almaqAzerbaijani
• изпитвам удоволствие, радвам сеBulgarian
• gaudirCatalan, Valencian
• godaCorsican
• bavitCzech
• nydeDanish
• genießenGerman
• απολαμβάνωGreek
• ĝuiEsperanto
• gozar, disfrutarSpanish
• nautimaEstonian
• لذت بردنPersian
• nauttiaFinnish
• profiter, jouirFrench
• bain taitneamh as, taitneamh, bain sult as, sultIrish
• còrd ri, gabh tlachd ann, mealScottish Gaelic
• élvezHungarian
• juarIdo
• godereItalian
• תהנהHebrew
• 享受する, 楽しむJapanese
• 즐겨Korean
• enjoyLatin
• genéissenLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
• hākinakinaMāori
• ആസ്വദിയ്ക്കുകMalayalam
• igawduMaltese
• genietenDutch
• glede seg ved, nyteNorwegian
• gaudir, gausirOccitan
• lubićPolish
• apreciar, gozar, aproveitar, desfrutar, curtirPortuguese
• guder, giudair, galdeir, giodair, giuderRomansh
• a se bucura de, a se distra, savuraRomanian
• наслаждаться, насладитьсяRussian
• gosare, gosai, gudire, gosae, godire, bodireSardinian
• ужи́вати, gustirati, užívati, густиратиSerbo-Croatian
• gëzojAlbanian
• njuta av, åtnjuta, tycka omSwedish
• kujivinjariSwahili
• zevk almak, haz almakTurkish
• لطف اندوزUrdu
• juitönVolapük

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Princeton’s WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. enjoy, bask, relish, savor, savourverb

   derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in

   «She relished her fame and basked in her glory»

2. enjoyverb

   have benefit from

   «enjoy privileges»

3. love, enjoyverb

   get pleasure from

   «I love cooking»

4. enjoyverb

   have for one’s benefit

   «The industry enjoyed a boom»

5. delight, enjoy, revelverb

   take delight in

   «he delights in his granddaughter»

WiktionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. enjoyverb

   To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something

2. enjoyverb

   To have the use or benefit of something

   …while I still enjoy good health…

3. Etymology: From enjoir (), from gaudere.

Samuel Johnson’s DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To ENJOYverb

   Etymology: jouir, enjouir, French.

   1. To feel or perceive with pleasure; to have a pleasing sense of; to be delighted with.

   I could enjoy the pangs of death,
   And smile in agony.
   Joseph Addison, Cato.

   2. To obtain possession or fruition of.

   Edward the saint, in whom it pleased God, righteous and just, to let England see what a blessing sin and iniquity would not suffer it to enjoy.
   Richard Hooker, b. iv. s. 14.

   He, who to enjoy
   Plato’s elysium, leap’d into the sea,
   Cleombrotus.
   John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. iii. l. 471.

   3. To please; to gladden; to exhilarate; to glad; to delight. This sense is usual with the reciprocal pronoun, and is derived from enjouir.

   Creatures are made to enjoy themselves, as well as to serve us.
   Henry More, Antidote against Atheism.

   When a man shall, with a sober, sedate, diabolical rancour, look upon and enjoy himself in the sight of his neighbour’s sin and shame, can he plead the instigation of any appetite in nature?
   Robert South, Sermons.

2. To Enjoyverb

   To live in happiness.

   Then I shall be no more!
   And Adam, wedded to another Eve,
   Shall live with her enjoying, I extinct.
   John Milton, Parad. Lost.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Enjoyverb

   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. Enjoyverb

   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

3. Enjoyverb

   to have sexual intercourse with

4. Enjoyverb

   to take satisfaction; to live in happiness

5. Etymology: [OF. enjoier to receive with joy; pref. en- (L. in) + OF. & F. joie joy: cf. OF. enjoir to enjoy. See Joy.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Enjoy

   en-joi′, v.t. to joy or delight in: to feel or perceive with pleasure: to possess or use with satisfaction or delight: to have the use of: to have sexual intercourse with.—adj. Enjoy′able, capable of being enjoyed or of giving joy.—n. Enjoy′ment, state or condition of enjoying: satisfactory possession or use of anything; pleasure: happiness. [O. Fr. enjoier, to give joy to—en (=L. in), and joie, joy; or O. Fr. enjoir, to enjoy—en, and joir—L. gaudēre, to rejoice.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. enjoy

   To have pleasure from.

   They did enjoy family gatherings and the feeling if love and unity.

   Submitted by MaryC on February 23, 2020  

2. ---

   enjoy

   To have the use of, to do or create.

   They did enjoy time with family and always prioritized this.

   Submitted by MaryC on February 23, 2020  

Matched Categories

1. • Experience
   • Like
   • Use

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word ‘enjoy’ in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1635

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word ‘enjoy’ in Written Corpus Frequency: #1293

3. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word ‘enjoy’ in Verbs Frequency: #156

How to pronounce enjoy?

How to say enjoy in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of enjoy in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of enjoy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of enjoy in a Sentence

1. Malcolm Forbes:

   The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

2. Barry Williams -LRB- Greg -RRB-:

   There’s a wonderful, wonderful entertainment community here, lots of music and shows. It’s all family-oriented. You have the gorgeous mountains and the big lakes. It’s a resort [ town ]. I did a show here, a full stage production music show, for six and a half years. But I fell in love with the area. So I moved here permanently. I really, really enjoy the outdoor life and the horses. I ’m wearing cowboy boots again and a hat. Or I ’m cruising around on a lake. Chris can tell you because he’s been a guest of mine here a few times, it’s a pretty special place.

3. Eleanor Holmes Norton:

   Have a heart, this could be the last snowstorm the D.C. area gets this winter, and may be one of the best for sledding in years. Children and their parents should able to enjoy sledding on one of the best hills in the city.

4. Dieter Schwarz in 2004:

   These freedoms that I currently enjoy will no longer exist to this degree. I am beyond my sell-by date as concerns the extent of my powers and areas of competence.

5. Jeremy Visoutsri:

   United States makes me feel less nerdy, definitely seeing some of my idols in professional sports playing, kind of makes me feel like, hey, this is popular, this is something I can enjoy with a broad audience of people.

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• استمتعArabic
• həzz almaqAzerbaijani
• изпитвам удоволствие, радвам сеBulgarian
• gaudirCatalan, Valencian
• godaCorsican
• bavitCzech
• nydeDanish
• genießenGerman
• απολαμβάνωGreek
• ĝuiEsperanto
• gozar, disfrutarSpanish
• nautimaEstonian
• لذت بردنPersian
• nauttiaFinnish
• profiter, jouirFrench
• bain taitneamh as, taitneamh, bain sult as, sultIrish
• còrd ri, gabh tlachd ann, mealScottish Gaelic
• élvezHungarian
• juarIdo
• godereItalian
• תהנהHebrew
• 享受する, 楽しむJapanese
• 즐겨Korean
• enjoyLatin
• genéissenLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
• hākinakinaMāori
• ആസ്വദിയ്ക്കുകMalayalam
• igawduMaltese
• genietenDutch
• glede seg ved, nyteNorwegian
• gaudir, gausirOccitan
• lubićPolish
• apreciar, gozar, aproveitar, desfrutar, curtirPortuguese
• guder, giudair, galdeir, giodair, giuderRomansh
• a se bucura de, a se distra, savuraRomanian
• наслаждаться, насладитьсяRussian
• gosare, gosai, gudire, gosae, godire, bodireSardinian
• ужи́вати, gustirati, užívati, густиратиSerbo-Croatian
• gëzojAlbanian
• njuta av, åtnjuta, tycka omSwedish
• kujivinjariSwahili
• zevk almak, haz almakTurkish
• لطف اندوزUrdu
• juitönVolapük

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