gratifying (root: gratify)

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: grat=i=fy=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

gratifying, adj. 

•  giving personal satisfaction.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  occasioning pride; as, a gratifying accomplishment.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  pleasing to the mind or feeling.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  affording pleasure or satisfaction.  [WordNet 1.5]

THESAURUS

gratifying

acceptable, affable, agreeable, amiable, amicable, blissful, cheerful, compatible, complaisant, congenial, cordial, delighting, desirable, dulcet, en rapport, enjoyable, fair, fair and pleasant, favorable, felicific, felicitous, fine, genial, gladdening, good, goodly, gracious, grateful, harmonious, heart-warming, honeyed, likable, mellifluous, mellow, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, regaling, rejoicing, rewarding, satisfying, sweet, welcome

ROGET THESAURUS

gratifying

Pleasurableness

N pleasurableness, pleasantness, agreeableness, pleasure giving, jucundity, delectability, amusement, attraction, attractiveness, attractability, invitingness, harm, fascination, enchantment, witchery, seduction, winning ways, amenity, amiability, winsomeness, loveliness, sunny side, bright side, sweets, goodness, manna in the wilderness, land flowing with milk and honey, bittersweet, fair weather, treat, regale, dainty, titbit, tidbit, nuts, sauce piquante, causing pleasure, laetificant, pleasure-giving, pleasing, pleasant, pleasurable, agreeable, grateful, gratifying, leef, lief, acceptable, welcome, welcome as the roses in May, welcomed, favorite, to one's taste, to one's mind, to one's liking, satisfactory, refreshing, comfortable, cordial, genial, glad, gladsome, sweet, delectable, nice, dainty, delicate, delicious, dulcet, luscious, palatable, luxurious, voluptuous, sensual, attractive, inviting, prepossessing, engaging, winning, winsome, taking, fascinating, captivating, killing, seducing, seductive, heart-robbing, alluring, enticing, appetizing, cheering, bewitching, enchanting, entrancing, enravishing, charming, delightful, felicitous, exquisite, lovely, ravishing, rapturous, heartfelt, thrilling, ecstatic, beatic, beatific, seraphic, empyrean, elysian, palmy, halcyon, Saturnian, decies repetita placebit, charms strike the sight but merit wins the soul, sweetness and light, beauty is only skin deep.