enjoy

enjoy is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 17 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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. transitive verb. 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. transitive verb. To have sexual intercourse with.
4. intransitive verb. To take satisfaction; to live in happiness.
5. verb. take delight in

   "he delights in his granddaughter"

   Synonyms: delight, revel

6. verb. have benefit from

   "enjoy privileges"

7. verb. derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in

   "She relished her fame and basked in her glory"

   Synonyms: bask, relish, savor, savour

8. verb. get pleasure from

   "I love cooking"

   Synonyms: love

9. verb. have for one's benefit

   "The industry enjoyed a boom"

Synonyms

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

Common word forms

enjoys, enjoyed, enjoyer, enjoying, enjoyable, enjoyment

Words from these letters

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