- delightful
- adjective
Date: circa 1530
highly pleasing <a delightful surprise> • delightfully adverb • delightfulness noun
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
delightful
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Delightful — Single by Ami Suzuki from the album Around the World A side Delightful … Wikipedia
Delightful — Single par Ami Suzuki extrait de l’album Around the World Face A Delightful Face B About You... Hopeful (remix) Sortie 24 mars 2005 … Wikipédia en Français
Delightful — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda «Delightful» Sencillo de Ami Suzuki del álbum AROUND THE WORLD Publicación 24 de marzo del 2005 Formato CD … Wikipedia Español
delightful — delightful, delicious, delectable, luscious mean extremely pleasing or gratifying to the senses or to aesthetic taste. Delightful, the least restricted in its application of these words, may refer to anything that affords keen, lively pleasure… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
Delightful — De*light ful, a. Highly pleasing; affording great pleasure and satisfaction. Delightful bowers. Spenser. Delightful fruit. Milton. Syn: Delicious; charming. See {Delicious}. {De*light ful*ly}, adv. {De*light ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
delightful — index attractive, palatable, sapid, savory Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
delightful — c.1400, from DELIGHT (Cf. delight) + FUL (Cf. ful). Related: Delightfully … Etymology dictionary
delightful — [adj] pleasant, charming adorable, agreeable, alluring, ambrosial, amusing, attractive, beautiful, captivating, cheery, clever, congenial, darling, delectable, delicious, enchanting, engaging, enjoyable, entertaining, fair, fascinating,… … New thesaurus
delightful — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ causing delight; very pleasing. DERIVATIVES delightfully adverb … English terms dictionary
delightful — [di līt′səmdi līt′fəl] adj. giving delight; very pleasing; charming: also Archaic delightsome [di līt′səm] delightfully adv. delightfulness n … English World dictionary
delightful — adj. VERBS ▪ be, seem, sound ADVERB ▪ most, really ▪ It has been a most delightful evening. ▪ … Collocations dictionary
