Words that rhyme with gratifying

• buying 0
  n 1: the act of buying; "buying and selling fill their days"; "shrewd purchasing requires considerable knowledge" [syn: buying, purchasing]
• clarifying 0
  adj 1: that makes clear; "a clarifying example" [syn: clarifying, elucidative]
• crying 0
  adj 1: demanding attention; "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need" [syn: clamant, crying, exigent, insistent, instant] 2: conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: crying(a), egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank] n 1: the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds); "I hate to hear the crying of a child"; "she was in tears" [syn: crying, weeping, tears]
• dyeing 0
  n 1: the use of dye to change the color of something permanently
• dying 0
  adj 1: in or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be; "a dying man"; "his dying wish"; "a dying fire"; "a dying civilization" [ant: nascent] 2: eagerly desirous; "anxious to see the new show at the museum"; "dying to hear who won" [syn: anxious(p), dying(p)] n 1: the time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes" [syn: death, dying, demise] [ant: birth]
• edifying 0
  adj 1: enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement; "the paintings in the church served an edifying purpose even for those who could not read" [syn: edifying, enlightening] [ant: unedifying, unenlightening]
• electrifying 0
  adj 1: causing a surge of emotion or excitement; "she gave an electrifying performance"; "a thrilling performer to watch" [syn: electrifying, thrilling]
• exemplifying 0
  adj 1: clarifying by use of examples [syn: exemplifying, illustrative]
• falsifying 0
  n 1: the act of determining that something is false [syn: falsification, falsifying, disproof, refutation, refutal]
• flying 0
  adj 1: moving swiftly; "fast-flying planes"; "played the difficult passage with flying fingers" [syn: fast- flying, flying] 2: hurried and brief; "paid a flying visit"; "took a flying glance at the book"; "a quick inspection"; "a fast visit" [syn: flying, quick, fast] n 1: an instance of traveling by air; "flying was still an exciting adventure for him" [syn: flight, flying]
• frying 0
  n 1: cooking in fat or oil in a pan or griddle [syn: frying, sauteing]
• gratify 0
  v 1: make happy or satisfied [syn: satisfy, gratify] [ant: dissatisfy] 2: yield (to); give satisfaction to [syn: gratify, pander, indulge]
• horrifying 0
  adj 1: provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound" [syn: atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly]
• intensifying 0
  adj 1: increasing in strength or intensity [ant: moderating]
• lying 0
  n 1: the deliberate act of deviating from the truth [syn: lying, prevarication, fabrication]
• mortifying 0
  adj 1: causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation; "the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles"; "it was mortifying to know he had heard every word" [syn: embarrassing, mortifying] 2: causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game" [syn: demeaning, humbling, humiliating, mortifying]
• mystifying 0
  adj 1: of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutable workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands" [syn: cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying]
• outlying 0
  adj 1: relatively far from a center or middle; "outlying settlements"
• overlying 0
  adj 1: placed on or over something else; "an overlying image" [syn: overlying, superimposed]
• prying 0
  adj 1: offensively curious or inquisitive; "curious about the neighbor's doings"; "he flipped through my letters in his nosy way"; "prying eyes"; "the snoopy neighbor watched us all day" [syn: nosy, nosey, prying, snoopy] n 1: offensive inquisitiveness [syn: nosiness, prying, snoopiness]
• purifying 0
  adj 1: serving to purge or rid of sin; "purgatorial rites" [syn: purgatorial, purging, purifying] 2: freeing from noxious matter; "filtration is a purifying agent" [ant: adulterant, adulterating] 3: acting like an antiseptic [syn: cleansing, purifying]
• qualifying 0
  n 1: the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase [syn: modification, qualifying, limiting] 2: success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in introductory chemistry" [syn: passing, pass, qualifying] [ant: failing, flunk]
• ratify 0
  v 1: approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation; "All parties ratified the peace treaty"; "Have you signed your contract yet?" [syn: sign, ratify]
• satisfying 0
  adj 1: providing abundant nourishment; "a hearty meal"; "good solid food"; "ate a substantial breakfast"; "four square meals a day" [syn: hearty, satisfying, solid, square, substantial] 2: providing freedom from worry [syn: comforting, cheering, satisfying]
• solidifying 0
  n 1: the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization; "the hardening of concrete"; "he tested the set of the glue" [syn: hardening, solidifying, solidification, set, curing]
• spying 0
  n 1: keeping a secret or furtive watch 2: the act of keeping a secret watch for intelligence purposes [syn: spying, undercover work] 3: the act of detecting something; catching sight of something [syn: detection, catching, espial, spying, spotting]
• stupefying 0
  adj 1: so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm; "such an enormous response was astonishing"; "an astounding achievement"; "the amount of money required was staggering"; "suffered a staggering defeat"; "the figure inside the boucle dress was stupefying" [syn: astonishing, astounding, staggering, stupefying] 2: making physically stupid or dull or insensible; "a stupefying blow to the head"; "the stupefying effects of hemp" 3: shocking with surprise and consternation; "the stupefying impact of the tragedy"
• supplying 0
  n 1: the activity of supplying or providing something [syn: provision, supply, supplying]
• terrifying 0
  adj 1: causing extreme terror; "a terrifying wail" [syn: terrific, terrifying]
• trying 0
  adj 1: hard to endure; "fell upon trying times" 2: extremely irritating to the nerves; "nerve-racking noise"; "the stressful days before a war"; "a trying day at the office" [syn: nerve-racking, nerve-wracking, stressful, trying]
• tying 0
  n 1: the act of tying or binding things together [syn: tying, ligature]
• underlying 0
  adj 1: in the nature of something though not readily apparent; "shortcomings inherent in our approach"; "an underlying meaning" [syn: implicit in(p), inherent, underlying] 2: located beneath or below 3: being or involving basic facts or principles; "the fundamental laws of the universe"; "a fundamental incomatibility between them"; "these rudimentary truths"; "underlying principles" [syn: fundamental, rudimentary, underlying]
• undying 0
  adj 1: never dying; "his undying fame" [syn: deathless, undying]
• unifying 0
  adj 1: combining into a single unit [syn: consolidative, unifying] 2: tending to unify [syn: centripetal, unifying(a)]
• untying 0
  n 1: loosening the ties that fasten something; "the tying of bow ties is an art; the untying is easy" [syn: untying, undoing, unfastening]
• verifying 0
  adj 1: serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence" [syn: collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying]
• allying 0
• amplifying 0
• applying 0
• beautifying 0
• belying 0
• certifying 0
• classifying 0
• codifying 0
• complying 0
• crucifying 0
• decrying 0
• defying 0
• denying 0
• detoxifying 0
• diversifying 0
• drying 0
• espying 0
• eyeing 0
• eying 0
• fortifying 0
• guying 0
• humidifying 0
• identifying 0
• implying 0
• justifying 0
• lignifying 0
• liquefying 0
• magnifying 0
• misapplying 0
• modifying 0
• mollifying 0
• multiplying 0
• notifying 0
• nullifying 0
• occupying 0
• pacifying 0
• personifying 0
• plying 0
• prophesying 0
• quantifying 0
• ramifying 0
• ratifying 0
• refrying 0
• relying 0
• replying 0
• shying 0
• sighing 0
• signifying 0
• simplifying 0
• specifying 0
• stratifying 0
• stultifying 0
• testifying 0
• typifying 0
• vilifying 0
• vying 0
• skying 0
• tieing 0
• overflying 0
• indemnifying 0
• recertifying 0
• glorifying 0
• mummifying 0
• rectifying 0

See also gratifying definition and gratifying synonyms