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

Yet rising calmly up and slowly With such a cheer as scorneth folly, A mild delightsome melancholy, He journeyed homeward through the wood And prayed along the solitude Betwixt the pines, "O God, my God!"

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Religion is delightsome, but self-denial is always against the grain of the self which is denied, and there is no religion without it.

From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Maclaren, Alexander

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