delightful

[ dih-lahyt-fuhl ]
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adjective
  1. giving great pleasure or delight; highly pleasing: a delightful surprise.

Origin of delightful

1
First recorded in 1520–30; delight + -ful

Other words for delightful

Opposites for delightful

Other words from delightful

  • de·light·ful·ly, adverb
  • de·light·ful·ness, noun
  • un·de·light·ful, adjective
  • un·de·light·ful·ly, adverb

Words Nearby delightful

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How to use delightful in a sentence

  • The grass had a delightful fragrance, like new-mown hay, and was neatly wound around the tunnel, like the inside of a bird's-nest.

    Davy and The Goblin | Charles E. Carryl
  • Fern cases were very much in vogue some years ago, and this is really a very delightful way of cultivating the plants.

    How to Know the Ferns | S. Leonard Bastin
  • A delightful instance of this fell under my own observation, as I was walking on Hampstead Heath.

    Children's Ways | James Sully
  • Am I not in France—gay, delightful France—partaking of the kindness and civility of the country?

  • She was his best friend and a delightful person to have for a mother; her soul might be her own possession undisturbed.

    Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton

British Dictionary definitions for delightful

delightful

/ (dɪˈlaɪtfʊl) /


adjective
  1. giving great delight; very pleasing, beautiful, charming, etc

Derived forms of delightful

  • delightfully, adverb
  • delightfulness, noun

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