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delight

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de⋅light

  [di-lahyt]
Use delight in a Sentence
–noun
1. a high degree of pleasure or enjoyment; joy; rapture: She takes great delight in her job.
2. something that gives great pleasure: The dance was a delight to see.
–verb (used with object)
3. to give great pleasure, satisfaction, or enjoyment to; please highly: The show delighted everyone.
–verb (used without object)
4. to have great pleasure; take pleasure (fol. by in or an infinitive): She delights in going for long walks in the country.
Origin:
1175–1225; (v.) resp., after light 1 , of earlier delite, ME deliten < AF deliter, OF delitier < L delectāre (see delectable ); (n.) resp. (as above) of ME delit < AF, OF, deriv. of v.

Related forms:
de⋅light⋅er, noun
de⋅light⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
de⋅light⋅less, adjective

Synonyms:
1. transport, delectation. See pleasure. 3. charm, enrapture.

Antonyms:
1. distress. 2. disappointment.
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de·light   (dĭ-līt')   
n.  

  1. Great pleasure; joy.

  2. Something that gives great pleasure or enjoyment.

v.   de·light·ed, de·light·ing, de·lights

v.   intr.

  1. To take great pleasure or joy: delights in taking long walks.

  2. To give great pleasure or joy: an old movie that still delights.

v.   tr.
To please greatly. See Synonyms at please.

[Middle English delit, from Old French, a pleasure, from delitier, to please, charm, from Latin dēlectāre : dē-, intensive pref.; see de- + lactāre, frequentative of lacere, to entice.]
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