Enjoy
[ɪn'dʒɒɪ;en-] or [ɪn'dʒɔɪ]
Definition
(verb.) have benefit from; 'enjoy privileges'.
(verb.) derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in; 'She relished her fame and basked in her glory'.
(verb.) have for one's benefit; 'The industry enjoyed a boom'.
Typist: Trevor--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To have sexual intercourse with.
(v. i.) To take satisfaction; to live in happiness.
Checked by Alma
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Take pleasure in, be delighted with, take delight in, derive pleasure from.[2]. Have fruition of.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Like, relish, possess
ANT:Dislike, disrelish, suffer, loathe,[See {[XXX]?}], forfeit, lose, tolerate,endure
Typist: Vern
Definition
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.
Editor: Patrick
Examples
- Let us enjoy five minutes of instructive conversation with her. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- What if my complaint be about to take a turn, and I am yet destined to enjoy health? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- This is what it is to live; he cried, now I enjoy existence! Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Miss Eliott is a very sweet girl, and seemed to enjoy herself, I thought, observed Beth, with unusual warmth. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- You have been shut up so long, it will do you no end of good, and I shall enjoy it, of all things. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I am such a sufferer that I hardly dare hope to enjoy much of your society. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But the climate's so infernal, they don't enjoy it long. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I enjoyed my customary siesta. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I am satisfied that Mr. and Mrs. Micawber could not have enjoyed the feast more, if they had sold a bed to provide it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She enjoyed herself very much that evening, for she danced to her heart's content. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Some of the office employees would also drop in once in a while, and as everybody present was always welcome to partake of the midnight meal, we all enjoyed these gatherings. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was good entertainment; but only half-enjoyed, since I was alone: you should have been there. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Edison always enjoyed Othello greatly. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In short, we quite enjoyed ourselves. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I'm too young, faltered Meg, wondering why she was so fluttered, yet rather enjoying it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I never did see sich tomfoolery, growled Gurt, who was enjoying himself hugely; this Baccus is all tommy rot. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It's all nonsense to talk to me about slaves _enjoying_ all this! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- There were intervals in which she could sit perfectly still, enjoying the outer stillness and the subdued light. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She threw off her mantle and bonnet, and sat down opposite to him, enjoying the glow, but lifting up her beautiful hands for a screen. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Ah, my dear Miss Bart, I am not divine Providence, to guarantee your enjoying the things you are trying to get! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Mr. March strolled placidly about, quoting Tusser, Cowley, and Columella to Mr. Laurence, while enjoying. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Mr. Tulkinghorn, sitting in the twilight by the open window, enjoys his wine. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- France, however, is certainly the great empire in Europe, which, after that of Great Britain, enjoys the mildest and most indulgent government. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Then he gets up and calls on the name of the lily of purity, the baby-faced girl, and so enjoys himself all round. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In doing this he enjoys all the pleasures of intellectual labor, and all the desire arising from protracted hope. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In that case long possession or prescription naturally takes place, and gives a person a sufficient property in any thing he enjoys. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It enables them both to enjoy more and to produce more, in proportion to what she enjoys and produces. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The fruit-wall frequently surrounds the kitchen garden, which thus enjoys the benefit of an inclosure which its own produce could seldom pay for. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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