delightest
delightest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of delight.
Meaning of delight
Verb
delight (third-person singular simple present delights, present participle delighting, simple past and past participle delighted)
- To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.
- Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds.1842, Tennyson, Le Morte d’Arthur
- To have or take great pleasure.
- A ſclaunderous tunge, a tunge of a ſkolde,
Worketh more miſchiefe than can be tolde;
That, if I wiſt not to be controlde,
Yet ſomwhat to ſay I dare well be bolde,c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.
- A ſclaunderous tunge, a tunge of a ſkolde,
Origin of delightest
delight + -est
Questions about delightest
- What is delightest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
- Delightest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of delight.
Words near delightest in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: delightest (page history and authors); delight (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “delightest.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/delightest. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
