delightsome

American  

[dih-lahyt-suhm] / dɪˈlaɪt səm /

adjective

Literary.

1. highly pleasing; delightful.

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Other Word Forms

• delightsomely adverb
• delightsomeness noun

Etymology

Origin of delightsome

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

Example Sentences

Captain John Smith, who first entered the bay in 1608, was so taken with the "fruitful and delightsome" place that he declared, "Heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place for man's habitation."

From Time Magazine Archive

Laurie’s eyes followed her with pleasure, for she neither romped nor sauntered, but danced with spirit and grace, making the delightsome pastime what it should be.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

This added to my other employments the delightsome one of courting, and we were married on the first of January, 1858.

From Memoirs of Orange Jacobs by Jacobs, Orange

So dainty and delightsome a little book may it be everybody's good hap to possess.—Evangelist,

From The Quality of Mercy by Howells, William Dean

Is it not delightsome that we are all together at last, Peggy?

From Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Madison, Lucy Foster