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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rewarding
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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▪ 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.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
richly rewarding
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ By planning for retirement, you can make it a happy and rewarding time of your life.
▪ International travel can be a rich and rewarding adventure.
▪ Nursing is a very rewarding job.
▪ The literature course has been hard work, but very rewarding.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As uplifting as a gallows, maybe, but a rewarding experiment in instrumentation none the less.
▪ Daily contact with the Partners, whilst a very demanding experience, is equally rewarding.
▪ From Seelisberg there is a longer walk which is particularly rewarding in the sustained panoramic views it offers.
▪ Heading further north, a journey along the 60 miles of coast road is rewarding for its spectacular views.
▪ In two years Gould could not possibly hope to cover all the areas he guessed would prove rewarding.
▪ The detail of this book requires more explanation than is possible here, but this is a rewarding book to read.
▪ Your work is so rewarding, even though it's unpleasant at times.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rewarding

Reward \Re*ward"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rewarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Rewarding.] [OF. rewarder, another form of regarder, of German origin. The original sense is, to look at, regard, hence, to regard as worthy, give a reward to. See Ward, Regard.] To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate.

After the deed that is done, one doom shall reward, Mercy or no mercy as truth will accord.
--Piers Plowman.

Thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.
--1 Sam. xxiv. 17.

I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
--Deut. xxxii. 41.

God rewards those that have made use of the single talent.
--Hammond.

Wiktionary
rewarding
  1. Giving reward or satisfaction. v

  2. (present participle of reward English)

WordNet
rewarding

adj. providing personal satisfaction; "a rewarding career as a paramedic" [ant: unrewarding]

Usage examples of "rewarding".

He was careful not to try to refute the irrefutable, arguing instead that religion, faith, will always be more rewarding, more emotionally satisfying, more morally uplifting than philosophy, and that insofar as Christians led moral and productive lives the religion justified itself.

Because we want our children to be consumers, and because we want our food shopping to go smoothly, we tend to indulge children in supermarkets, buying some of their favorite products or rewarding them for good behavior with a purchase or two.

How easy it is to make others happy, and how rewarding for someone like me to see my dearest Cesse smile and say that, yes, yes, I can do this!

The marchioness assented, rewarding Chiaccheri with a smile, but I could not do so.

God had heard Eban the Hunter and, although he had chosen to punish his servant by taking away the woman he loved most, was now rewarding his servant with a gift.

I found myself wishing that Glory Doyle Geis would find some good and rewarding thing to do with her life from now on in, find someone who would sense how much she had to give, and how badly she needed someone to need her-as Fort Geis had.

The Pope, Ganganelli, had the choice of punishing the writer and increasing the odium of many of the faithful, or of rewarding him handsomely.

Instead of rewarding him for his arduous journey, the Naib had sent his abashed young grandson off to his quarters alone.

Simply to say that an animal is pairing the neutral act of pecking at something which is both green and round, unaccompanied by any such rewarding or aversive experience, is to say nothing other than that the animal, in remembering the bead, can recall various aspects of it, including colour and shape.

To rollick Sune around a bed no doubt would be a rewarding experience for nerve, gland and body.

I always believed that, as socially awkward as he was, he would immerse himself in his photography and carve out a rewarding career.

This idea of the banishment or admission of souls, according to their deserts, or according to an elective grace, into an anchored location called hell or heaven, a retributive or rewarding residence for eternity, we shall pass by with few words, because it recurs for fuller examination in other chapters.

It was too late to see the superioress, so I drove home after rewarding the coachman and the lackey.

There was a culture in the Bureau that dismissed the work of earnest brick agents like Nancy Floyd and her colleagues in Minneapolis while rewarding the mean-spirited incompetence of supervisors.

The time she spent in very pleasant discussion with Mister Blenkinsop was not only rewarding, it culmi- nated in such an unexpected and happy finale that she could have kissed him.