REWARDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rewarding mean? 

• REWARDING (adjective)
  The adjective REWARDING has 1 sense:

1. providing personal satisfaction

  Familiarity information: REWARDING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REWARDING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Providing personal satisfaction

Context example:

a rewarding career as a paramedic

Similar:

bountied (rewarded or able to be rewarded by a bounty)

rewardful (offering or productive of reward)

Also:

pleasing (giving pleasure and satisfaction)

profitable (yielding material gain or profit)

Antonym:

unrewarding (not rewarding; not providing personal satisfaction)

 Context examples 

Together, the findings suggest that activation of the cerebellar projections to the VTA is rewarding for mice and that the cerebellum plays a role in reward-related behaviors.

(New Findings Reveal Surprising Role of the Cerebellum in Reward and Social Behaviors, National Institutes of Health)

This shows that when we engage in rewarding activities like eating, we are inadvertently affecting our biological rhythms.

(Neurons That Control Brain's Body Clock Identified, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Responding appropriately to aversive or rewarding stimuli is essential for survival.

(Researchers identify key brain circuits for reward-seeking and avoidance behavior, National Institutes of Health)

It has the potential to be a fantastically rewarding day for your career, and it is a day as rare as diamonds.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I did as she bade me—rewarding myself afterwards for my obedience—and she charmed me out of my graver character for I don't know how long.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His primacy was savage, and savagely he ruled, administering justice with a club, punishing transgression with the pain of a blow, and rewarding merit, not by kindness, but by withholding a blow.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favourites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, eminent services; of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employments persons qualified to exercise them, with many other wild, impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational, which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

To map the brain circuitry between the BNST and the hypothalamus, Dr. William Giardino and colleagues at Stanford University exposed mice to rewarding and aversive stimuli, and then visualized and manipulated the activity of neurons using fiber optic techniques.

(Researchers identify key brain circuits for reward-seeking and avoidance behavior, National Institutes of Health)