delightful
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- //dəˈlaɪt.fl̩//
Pleasant; pleasing, bringing enjoyment, satisfaction, or pleasure.
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Pleasant; pleasing, bringing enjoyment, satisfaction, or pleasure.
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[.]
Etimologia
From Middle English deliteful, delitfull, equivalent to delight + -ful.
Formas
- comparativo
- more delightful, delightfuler, delightfuller
- superlativo
- most delightful, delightfulest, delightfullest
delightful · Pleasant; pleasing, bringing enjoyment, satisfaction, or pleasure.
Delilah · The mistress of Samson who betrayed him to the Philistines.delinquent · Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation,…delirious · Being in the state of delirium.