delightful
adjective
giving great pleasure or delight; highly pleasing.
delightfully
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a word derived from
delightful.
Example Sentences
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Lake Park Bistro — Lake Park Bistro has the kind of delightfully old-school French restaurant feel that starts at the grand entrance and continues with white tablecloths and waiters in spiffy uniforms.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
“The inside is arranged with the measured confidence of Spanish Colonial design at its most resolved, delightfully adding a secret passageway to a speakeasy behind a combination vault,” it states.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Professional paleontology nerd Riley Black gives us her delightfully detailed assessment.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
He was believed to be a cheerfully overweight, somewhat enigmatic British chap with a delightfully macabre sense of humor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
These delightfully proportioned amusements would therefore need all the help they could get from formal blueprints like Sonata Form, and from musical versions of the balanced layouts of Capability Brown’s gardens, or Robert Adam’s buildings.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
