gratify

What it means

1. transitiveTo please.

   Synonyms: happify, gladden, beatify, enrapture, begladden, blissen, bright, cheer · Antonyms: anger, disquiet, fluster

2. transitiveTo make content; to satisfy.

   gratify the voters

   1 more example

   gratify the critics

   Synonyms: conciliate, placate, abound, amuse, appease, assuage, captivate, cater · Antonyms: discontent, dissatisfy

In a sentence

gratify the critics

Where it comes from

1. Latingrātificō“to do a favor to, oblige, please, gratify”
2. Frenchgratifier
3. Englishgratify

From French gratifier, from Latin grātificō (“to do a favor to, oblige, please, gratify”), from grātus (“kind, pleasing”) + faciō (“to make”).