delightsome

[ dih-lahyt-suhm ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, Literary.

First recorded in 1490–1500; delight + -some ¹

The morning vastly pleasant & Cohansie looks a delightsome as ever it used I went to meeting.

There's nothing delightsome without society, no society so sweet as matrimony.

What more delightsome than an infinite variety of sweet smelling flowers?

Who knows not that the first scene of infancy is far the most pleasant and delightsome?

His manor was so fair and so delightsome that all the world did not contain its peer.

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

[gal-uh-maw-free ]

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