Synonyms for enjoy
Most common
Definitions
- v. 1
To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.
Enjoy your holidays! I very much enjoy dancing.
Related words
- Word family
- enjoyability enjoyable enjoyee enjoyer enjoyment
- Phrases
- enjoy oneself enjoy your meal
Forms
- Past participle
- enjoyed
e.g. enjoyed → liked, appreciated, savored, reveled…
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We admire beauty in nature and art, delight in the innocent happiness of children, enjoy books or society, a walk or a dinner.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- appreciate I cannot appreciate the subtleties of the subject.
- revel I am too sick at heart to revel, carouse, and make merry through the night.
- savor Every morning I make coffee and savor its aroma.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| enjoy | rising | |
| appreciate | steady | |
| revel | rising | |
| savor | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- have1, like1, love1, bask1
- 5 letters
- feast1, revel2, savor2
- 6 letters
- groove1, relish2, savour
- 7 letters
- delight2, possess2, rejoice2, disport, coitize
- 8 letters
- pleasure2
- 10 letters
- appreciate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (revel2 = 2 syllables).