Delightful

/dəˈlaɪt.fl̩/ · adjective

Meaning

Pleasant; pleasing, bringing enjoyment, satisfaction, or pleasure..

Example Sentences

What? a higher delight to be drawn from the sight / Of fish full of life and of glee? / What a noodle you are! ’tis delightfuller far / To kill them than let them go free!

O, Joy! quicker than fire! O, Hope of things! / O, gracious gladness mighty with delight! / O, subtle sweet, delightfuler than might! / Ah, me, no fiercer laughing unction springs / From the fair Hope of things!

Hon. Collier Weekly which furnish Japanese Schoolboy to public not often enough, when is his book coming out? […] That Boy is the dearest & sweetest & frankest & wisest & funniest & delightfulest & lovablest creation that has been added to our literature for a long time.

Congratulations on that delightful absurdity about Nimzovitch[.]

An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed 'to save notepaper') and enter into the delightful pastime of 'a chicken from Mr Whiteley's'.

That is what I plan to do at Yahoo: give the end user something valuable and delightful that makes them want to come to Yahoo every day.

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Word Forms

• more delightful
• delightfuler
• delightfuller
• most delightful
• delightfulest
• delightfullest
• delightfull

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