delightful

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
21
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/dəˈlaɪt.fl̩/

Definition of delightful

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Pleasant; pleasing, bringing enjoyment, satisfaction, or pleasure.
    “What? a higher delight to be drawn from the sight / Of fish full of life and of glee? / What a noodle you are! ’tis delightfuller far / To kill them than let them go free!”
    “O, Joy! quicker than fire! O, Hope of things! / O, gracious gladness mighty with delight! / O, subtle sweet, delightfuler than might! / Ah, me, no fiercer laughing unction springs / From the fair Hope of things!”
    “Hon. Collier Weekly which furnish Japanese Schoolboy to public not often enough, when is his book coming out? […] That Boy is the dearest & sweetest & frankest & wisest & funniest & delightfulest & lovablest creation that has been added to our literature for a long time.”
    “Congratulations on that delightful absurdity about Nimzovitch[.]”
    “An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed 'to save notepaper') and enter into the delightful pastime of 'a chicken from Mr Whiteley's'.”

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Etymology

From Middle English deliteful, delitfull, equivalent to delight + -ful.

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