gamify en · VERB
Etymology
From game + -ify.
Meanings
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(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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| gamifying | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| gamifies | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| gamified | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| gamified | Tense=Past | lexicographic |
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Translations (8)
es gamificar (to convert into the form of a game) · fr ludifier (to convert into the form of a game) · fi pelillistää (to convert into the form of a game) · sv spelifiera (to convert into the form of a game) · pt gamificar (to convert into the form of a game) · de gamifizieren (to convert into the form of a game) · pt ludificar (to convert into the form of a game) · es ludificar (to convert into the form of a game)