单词 | rewarding |
释义 | rewardingre‧ward‧ing /rɪˈwɔːdɪŋ $ -ɔːr-/ ●○○ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
THESAURUS► satisfying Collocations making you feel satisfied, because you have got or achieved something you wanted: · There’s something very satisfying about baking your own bread.· Teaching can be immensely satisfying. ► rewarding satisfying, because you feel you are doing something useful for yourself or for other people: · Nursing is a very rewarding job.· It's been hard work, but very rewarding. ► fulfilling making you feel satisfied and happy with your life, because you are using your abilities in a useful way. Fulfilling and rewarding are very close in meaning. Fulfilling is used more about your feelings about your life in general, and that something makes you feel a happier person: · We want to provide a more fulfilling life for people who are mentally ill.· a happier and more fulfilling relationship· What should be a happy and fulfilling experience all too often is not. ► pleasing making you feel pleased and satisfied, because something is good: · The results of the training scheme were very pleasing. ► gratifying making you feel pleased and satisfied, especially because people like what you have done, or you feel that you were right about something: · Their enthusiastic reception of his paintings was very gratifying.· It's gratifying to know that these videos are appreciated.· It is extremely gratifying to hear that something I did affected someone's life in such a positive way. Longman Language Activatormaking you feel satisfied► satisfying a job, activity, or experience that is satisfying makes you feel satisfied, because you enjoy doing it and the results are often very good: · There's something very satisfying about baking your own bread.· Working with children with special needs can be a satisfying and rewarding experience. ► fulfilling something that is fulfilling , such as a job or way of life, makes you feel satisfied and happy, because you are using your abilities in a useful way: · Pruitt says that for him, fatherhood is creative and fulfilling.· Many older people who have no fulfilling personal relationships lavish their affection on pets. ► rewarding a job or activity that is rewarding is satisfying, because you feel you are doing something useful for yourself or for other people: · Nursing is a very rewarding job.· The literature course has been hard work, but very rewarding.· By planning for retirement, you can make it a happy and rewarding time of your life. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► more Word family· So, on St George's day stick to rescuing damsels in distress, it will be more rewarding.· The principle I work on is that passages of colour are more rewarding than the dot effect.· Either of these will make reading Maastricht longer but more rewarding.· These radical changes, designed to make work more rewarding, were not confined to the tax system.· Tuberculosis For another widespread disease the biochemical approach, and particularly the idea of competitive antagonism, proved to be more rewarding.· The additional strain may in the end be more rewarding, more life-enhancing than one would ever have felt possible.· Whatever information you can send me to help steer me on to a path to a more rewarding career would be most appreciated.· A labouring person who aspires to a better and more rewarding life is judged to be grossly deceived. ► most· This requires care and patience in the preparation, performance, and marking of the tests but it can be most rewarding.· Subtly mythic and ethnocentric, the novel is one of Naipaul's most rewarding.· Reaction to the show was encouraging and word of mouth most rewarding of all.· You are on the way to one of the most rewarding experiences of your life.· It's a long day out, but a most rewarding one, as I was to discover.· Make a decision as to which option would be most rewarding and feasible.· It's one of the most rewarding attributes they possess - discovering and articulating the weird mutation in the human race. ► very· It's hard work but very rewarding. 5.· It has been very rewarding and enjoyable.· Holidays with her were thus a very full as well as a very rewarding experience.· The records of some of these bodies can go back over many years, and are frequently very rewarding.· The Forest of Dean in June is both tantalising - and very rewarding.· There is no doubt that owning a horse can be very rewarding.· Waiting on the bank of the river to film mink is, in many ways, a very rewarding experience.· Planning and executing your campaign is fun and can be very rewarding if you're successful. NOUN► experience· Holidays with her were thus a very full as well as a very rewarding experience.· Still less can I will the death of some one I love on the calculation that the bereavement will be a rewarding experience.· Waiting on the bank of the river to film mink is, in many ways, a very rewarding experience.· You are on the way to one of the most rewarding experiences of your life.· Rosie Dean is just one example among many of the specialists that make buying furniture in Yorkshire a rewarding experience.· The pilgrims found their journey a highly rewarding experience.· Instead I read military history, a rewarding experience under C. T. Atkinson.· They offer to their old people many opportunities for social interaction and for emotionally rewarding experiences. WORD FAMILYadjectiverewarding ≠ unrewardingunrewardednounrewardverbreward making you feel happy and satisfied because you feel you are doing something useful or important, even if you do not earn much money → satisfying, worthwhile: Teaching can be a very rewarding career. |
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