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gamify

gamify verb: to convert into the form of a game.

Verb

gamify (third-person singular simple present gamifies, present participle gamifying, simple past and past participle gamified)

  1. (transitive) To convert into the form of a game.
    • Famously, Tinder gamified the search for love, introducing that addictive swipe feature to its target audience: millennials.2025 May 10, Lulu Garcia-Navarro, “‘The Interview’: Can Whitney Wolfe Herd Make Us Love Dating Apps Again?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 May 2025

Forms of gamify

third-person singular presentgamifies
present participlegamifying
past participlegamified
pastgamified

Origin of gamify

From game + -ify.

Words formed from gamify

Questions about gamify

What does gamify mean?
Gamify means to convert into the form of a game.
What part of speech is gamify?
Gamify is a verb.
What is the past tense of gamify?
The past tense of gamify is gamified.

Words near gamify in the dictionary

  1. gamifiable
  2. gamification
  3. gamifications
  4. gamified
  5. gamifies
  6. gamify
  7. gamifying
  8. Gamilaraay
  9. Gamilaroi
  10. gamily
  11. gamin

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