1 to please someone, or to satisfy a wish or need:
[ + to infinitive ] He was gratified to see how well his students had done.
His conclusion is that the results should be gratifying for the music educator, indicating music's importance in young people's lives.
Especially gratifying is that the strong-party-strong-executive and weak-party-weak-executive cells are empty.
They depict a process in which desire is produced and gratified through the dissolution of the morally integrated self.
According to this model, desire should be fanned to a feverish pitch; however, it must never be gratified, not in this world.
What we actually are concerned with are human responses, organic and social necessities, which can be gratified on or through this site.
It is also gratifying to see drug counselling given equal space to some of the more prominently reported therapies.
It is gratifying to note that the volume's preface promises that a biennial series will rely on the framework developed here to monitor pension reforms.
A social drama that enhances the power of one group may at the same time disempower others; while it gratifies some, it terrorizes others.