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

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How to use delightful in a sentence

  • And its delightfulness ought mainly to consist in those very imperfections which mark it for work done in times of rest.

  • One of the things upon which Mrs. Thorne laid great emphasis was the delightfulness of cold meals on hot days.

    Living on a Little | Caroline French Benton
  • Writers have gone into raptures about the delightfulness of an open-air luncheon or a boating excursion.

    Bouvard and Pcuchet, part 2 | Gustave Flaubert
  • She rewarded him with all the charm, all the delightfulness, of which under the circumstances she was mistress.

    Robert Elsmere | Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • He owned her delightfulness for a man of Robert's dreamy, romantic, intense temperament.

    Robert Orange | John Oliver Hobbes

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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