Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Greatly pleasing.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Highly pleasing; affording great pleasure and satisfaction: as, a delightful thought; a delightful prospect.
- Synonyms Delicious, Delightful (see delicious); charming, exquisite, enchanting, rapturous, ravishing.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Highly pleasing; affording great pleasure and satisfaction.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. greatly pleasing or entertaining
Etymologies
- delight + -ful (Wiktionary)
Examples
“After a short visit which Josephine made to St. Leu, and which she describes as delightful, she returned to Malmaison, and Hortense went to the springs of Aix-la-Chapelle, taking her two children with her.”
“Inut is a delightful adventure with spectacular scenery -- winning the Woodstock Film Festival's cinematography award -- paced for Greenland culture and the mammoth landscape, while revealing a culture under attack in delightful story telling fashion.”
The Huffington Post: Stewart Nusbaumer: Peace & Survial: Two Worthy Docs
“You spend much more of your time wincing at noxious stinks, than reveling in delightful aromas.”
“Finding dresses, which I prefer to wear, is very hard to find in delightful fabrics.”
The Art of Frederick Morgan: Examples of 19th Century Modest, Feminine Dress
“Also delightful is the fact that Sawako never once entertains the notion of changing her appearance; she just wants to introduce her classmates to the girl on the inside.”
“It is paced for the Greenlandic tempo and the desolate landscape, as it reveals a culture under attack in delightful story telling fashion.”
The Huffington Post: Stewart Nusbaumer: Peace & Survial: Two Worthy Docs
“I just can't resist these pastel seasonal treats when they're placed in delightful tableaux.”
“They express in delightful, thoughtful, and encouraging ways their commitment to the goal of attracting able and interested individuals to science.”
“Architects of the 60s blighted the urban landscape with hideous modernity and lived in delightful Georgian splendour in Surrey but I see Andy Warhol as better than that.”
“Restaurants serve meals that are varied, delicious and inexpensive often in delightful surroundings, and often to the accompaniment of excellent guitarists.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘delightful’.
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Beautiful and Ugly
Beautiful, attractive, well-formed
Ugly, unattractive, malformedadorable, alluring, angelic, appealing, appetizing, attractive, beaming, beauteous, beautiful, becoming, beguiling, bewitching and 180 more...
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Describing the Taste of Foods
yummy, zesty, piquant, pungent, sharp, spicy, poignant, delicious, ambrosial, appetizing, delectable, heavenly and 194 more...
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Fairylike
fairylike, enchanted, pixieish, pixyish, impish, mischievous, fluttery, magical, bewitching, enchanting, fey, otherworldly and 126 more...
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Words to Describe The Taste of Food
This list seeks to address a pet annoyance of mine. It occurs when chefs, food critics and travel writers, usually on television, taste something that looks either delicious or unusual and then in...
unctuous, sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami, piquant, savory, tangy, luscious, delectable, brackish and 66 more...
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Overwhelming
Descriptive, emotional, powerful words.
delightful, wonderful, spectacular, great, fantastic, amazing, magnificent, inspiring, intense, brilliant, blatant, hilarious and 2 more...
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Her
beautiful, lovely, magnificent, exquisite, marvelous, charming, delicate, delightful, elegant, divine, resplendant, radiant and 6 more...
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Happy
joyous, jovial, glad, merry, delightful, ecstatic, cheerful, euphoria, jolly, lively, upbeat, pleasant and 1 more...
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intueri's Words
inveigle, dolorous, archly, feckless, resplendent, concatenation, peripatetic, delightful, cookie, fey, ephemeral, effervescent and 347 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
bumwank, calamity, recalcitrant, gayenese, jeeze, nonsense, flabbergasted, juxtapose, procrastinating, ossanity, biffing, loser and 1972 more... -
Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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africasunsets's list
serendipity, fragrance, glamour, smitten, nourish, lavish, luxury, wicked, gem, daring, soothe, fantasy and 192 more...
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Descriptive
The present, the future. Goals, wishes, hopes.
capricious, sericeous, sleek, flawless, charming, skilled, long-haired, versatile, beautiful, witty, fair, thin and 145 more...
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Apples to Apples: Green Cards
A complete list of the green cards (adjectives) from the popular word game.
absurd, addictive, adorable, aged, American, ancient, animated, annoying, appetizing, arrogant, awesome, awkward and 237 more...
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mango22's Words
avalanche, apple, arrividerci, awry, adamant, asunder, barter, beloved, calm, cataclysmic, catastrophe, coat and 143 more...
Tweets
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