enjoyed
Syllables: en·joyed/ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪd/
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Australia/enˈd͡ʒoɪd/
enjoyed is the simple past and past participle of enjoy.
Meaning of enjoy
Verb
enjoy (third-person singular simple present enjoys, present participle enjoying, simple past and past participle enjoyed)
- To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.
- Enjoy your holidays! I very much enjoy dancing.
- Synonyms:
- appreciate, delight in, rejoice, relish, pleasure, feast, groove
- To have the use or benefit of something.
- I plan to go travelling while I still enjoy good health.
- Synonyms:
- rejoice
- To be satisfied or receive pleasure; to have fun.
- I enjoyed a lot.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- Never did thy Beautie[…]so enflame my sense With ardor to enjoy thee.1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
- Synonyms:
- coitize
Words formed from enjoyed
Phrases with enjoyed
Words that rhyme with enjoyed
Questions about enjoyed
- What is enjoyed the simple past and past participle of?
- Enjoyed is the simple past and past participle of enjoy.
- How do you pronounce enjoyed?
- Enjoyed is pronounced /ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪd/.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: enjoyed (page history and authors); enjoy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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