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injoy

injoy is the obsolete form of enjoy.

Meaning of enjoy

Verb

enjoy (third-person singular simple present enjoys, present participle enjoying, simple past and past participle enjoyed)

  1. (transitive) To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.
    • Enjoy your holidays! I very much enjoy dancing.
  2. (transitive) To have the use or benefit of something.
    • I plan to go travelling while I still enjoy good health.
    Synonyms:
    rejoice
  3. (India, intransitive) To be satisfied or receive pleasure; to have fun.
    • I enjoyed a lot.
  4. (transitive) 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

Forms of injoy

third-person singular presentinjoys
present participleinjoying
past participleinjoyed
pastinjoyed

Questions about injoy

What is injoy the obsolete form of?
Injoy is the obsolete form of enjoy.

Words near injoy in the dictionary

  1. injoins
  2. injoint
  3. injointed
  4. injointing
  5. injoints
  6. injoy
  7. injoyed
  8. injoying
  9. injoys
  10. injucundity
  11. injudicable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: injoy (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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