delight
a high degree of pleasure or enjoyment; joy; rapture: She takes great delight in her job.
something that gives great pleasure: The dance was a delight to see.
to give great pleasure, satisfaction, or enjoyment to; please highly: The show delighted everyone.
to have great pleasure; take pleasure (followed by in or an infinitive): She delights in going for long walks in the country.
Origin of delight
1synonym study For delight
Other words for delight
Opposites for delight
Other words from delight
- de·light·er, noun
- de·light·ing·ly, adverb
- de·light·less, adjective
- self-de·light, noun
- un·de·light·ing, adjective
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How to use delight in a sentence
In this episode, we share a pair of stories about people finding unexpected delight in the wilderness—having remarkable days that they didn’t really plan for and that changed them in ways they never imagined.
Two Wild Trips with Surprisingly Happy Endings | Outside Editors | December 4, 2020 | Outside OnlineEqually, some of the most essential elements for science are passion and delight at the sheer, absurd wonder of it all.
Five Scientists on the Heroes Who Changed Their Lives - Issue 93: Forerunners | Alan Lightman, Hope Jahren, Robert Sapolsky, | December 2, 2020 | NautilusIn short, Oregon State’s 41-38 triumph was a delight, unless you were the Ducks.
College football winners and losers: Pac-12 playoff hopes disappear with Oregon’s loss | Patrick Stevens | November 29, 2020 | Washington PostLater, on her social feeds, she shared it had been a surprise, unexpected delight in a difficult time.
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend publicly grieve the death of baby Jack | Ellen McGirt | October 1, 2020 | FortuneMaybe it’s different when you have more people and a larger government, but with a little over 2,000 people in our village, it’s a delight to just be helping people.
He had been delighting in zooming about just moments before.
She began riding to school and through the streets of her hometown, delighting in the freedom she felt.
Is It Possible to Become Un-Paralyzed? Monique van der Vorst Says It Happened to Her | Sarah J. Robbins | December 18, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTHere we have a novel, and a novelist, delighting in the joy of language itself.
Must Reads | Allen Barra, Lucy Scholes, Kevin Canfield, Jane Ciabattari | October 3, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd the whole scene was all bathed in spring sunlight, which the birds, delighting in, made into a vast concert hall.
The Everlasting Arms | Joseph HockingBy day he sometimes loved to watch the little street below, delighting in the motion and color of passing groups.
The Dragon Painter | Mary McNeil FenollosaShe is looking out gladly through the dripping windows and delighting in all the ugliness.
The Nabob | Alphonse DaudetCollot D'Herbois had a personal motive of a singular nature for delighting in the task intrusted to him and his colleagues.
Fox's Book of Martyrs | John FoxeThey are barbarians, roving from place to place, without habits of industry, and delighting in war.
The Indian in his Wigwam | Henry R. Schoolcraft
British Dictionary definitions for delight
/ (dɪˈlaɪt) /
(tr) to please greatly
(intr foll by in) to take great pleasure (in)
extreme pleasure or satisfaction; joy
something that causes this: music was always his delight
Origin of delight
1Derived forms of delight
- delighter, noun
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