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delightful

[ dih-lahyt-fuhl ]

/ dɪˈlaɪt fəl /

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adjective

giving great pleasure or delight; highly pleasing: a delightful surprise.

Origin of delightful

First recorded in 1520–30; delight + -ful

SYNONYMS FOR delightful

pleasant, pleasurable, enjoyable; charming, enchanting, delectable, agreeable.

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ANTONYMS FOR delightful

disagreeable.

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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

Words nearby delightful

delicia, delicious, delict, delight, delighted, delightful, delightsome, delilah, delillo, delimit, delimitate

Example sentences from the Web for delightfully

Sure, there are some colorful English aristocrats still around, but is the age of the delightfully nutty toff at an end?

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For me, technology is a delightfully helpful crutch to scaffold me into more advanced meditative practices.

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The delightfully trippy television special has been mocked as feminist propaganda disguised as entertainment.

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It was an emotional speech, but a delightfully graceful, rather than unctuous and overblown, one.

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For more than ten years and countless buckets of blood, ‘CSI’ has taken us to delightfully gruesome crime scenes.

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They liked wine; they knew what it was, all right, but this seemed to have a delightfully different flavor.

Naudsonce |H. Beam Piper
Out in the Ægean Sea the weather is almost cool and delightfully refreshing, just like a fine morning in spring at home.

Cities of the Dawn |J. Ewing Ritchie
I thought how delightfully nave and completely perfect was their understanding.

Nat Goodwin's Book |Nat C. Goodwin
The other's tone was delightfully envious of Uriah's good fortune.

The New Land |Elma Ehrlich Levinger
He would have had some urbane, cynical and delightfully disillusioning remarks to offer.

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British Dictionary definitions for delightfully

delightful

/ (dɪˈlaɪtfʊl) /

adjective

giving great delight; very pleasing, beautiful, charming, etc

Derived forms of delightful

delightfully, adverb delightfulness, noun