enjoy
Verb
Verb Forms: enjoyed, enjoying, enjoys
- To take delight or pleasure in an activity or experience.
- derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in
- have benefit from
- "enjoy privileges"
- get pleasure from
- have for one's benefit
- "The industry enjoyed a boom"
- take delight in
- To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.
- To have the use or benefit of something.
- To be satisfied or receive pleasure.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
Examples
- Enjoy your holidays! I very much enjoy dancing.
- He couldn’t help but ENJOY the cleverness of his opponent’s triple-word play.
- I enjoyed a lot.
- I plan to go travelling while I still enjoy good health.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English enjoyen, from Old French enjoier, anjoier, enjoer (“to give joy, receive with joy, rejoice”), equivalent to en- + joy.
Synonyms
bask, delight, love, relish, revel, savor, savour, appreciate, coitize, copulate with, delight in, feast, go to bed with, pleasure, rejoice, rejoice in, sleep with
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 15
enjoy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordenjoy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
enjoy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary