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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

advantageous, affable, agreeable, amiable, amicable, blissful, cheerful, compatible, compensating, compensative, compensatory, complaisant, congenial, cordial, desirable, dulcet, en rapport, enjoyable, enriched, enriching, fair, fair and pleasant, felicific, felicitous, fine, fruitful, gainful, genial, good, goodly, gracious, grateful, gratifying, harmonious, heart-warming, honeyed, likable, lucrative, mellifluous, mellow, moneymaking, nice, of value, paying, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, productive, profitable, remunerative, reparative, repaying, retributive, retributory, rewardful, satisfying, sweet, valuable, welcome, well-spent, worthwhile, yielding a return

Dictionary Results for rewarding:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

rewarding
    adj 1: providing personal satisfaction; "a rewarding career as a
           paramedic" [ant: unrewarding]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
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         After the deed that is done, one doom shall reward,
         Mercy or no mercy as truth will accord.  --Piers
                                                  Plowman.
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         Thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded
         thee evil.                               --1 Sam. xxiv.
                                                  17.
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         I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will
         reward them that hate me.                --Deut. xxxii.
                                                  41.
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         God rewards those that have made use of the single
         talent.                                  --Hammond.
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