Crossword clues for rewarding
rewarding
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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
Giving reward or satisfaction. v
(present participle of reward English)
WordNet
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.