delightful
Syllables: de·light·ful/dəˈlaɪt.fl̩/
delightful adjective: pleasant; pleasing, bringing enjoyment, satisfaction, or pleasure.
Adjective
delightful (comparative more delightful or delightfuler or delightfuller, superlative most delightful or delightfulest or delightfullest)
- 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!1853, Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “The Two Brothers”, in Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, editor, The Lewis Carroll Picture Book […], London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published...
- 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!1888, Venier Voldo, “Memoria in Eterna”, in Poems from the Pacific: The West’s Reply to England’s Laureate, 2nd edition, San Francisco, Calif.: The Bancroft Company, →OCLC, page 134
- Synonyms:
- delectable, delicious
delightful meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
delightful in Hindi
- pleasant; pleasing
- सुखद sukhad, सुखदायी sukhdāyī, सुखदायक sukhdāyak, मनोरम manoram
delightful in Tamil
- பெயர் உரிச்சொற்கள், மனக்களிப்பூட்டும், இன்பமூட்டும், மகிழ்ச்சித்தரும், மனோரஞ்சிதமான, குதூகலமூட்டும்
delightful in Urdu
- delightful; gratifying
- خجیر xajīr
delightful in Bengali
- খুশি, পরমানন্দিত
More languagesFewer languages
- delightful in Malayalam
- സന്തോഷം നൽകുന്ന, സന്തോഷിപ്പിക്കുന്ന, രമ്യ, കാമ്യമായ
- delightful in Odia
- ଖୁସି khusi
- delightful in Sanskrit
- रम्य ramya
- delightful in Arabic
- بَهِيج bahīj
- delightful in Persian
- دلپذیر delpazir, دلپسند delpasand
Examples of delightful in a sentence
- Congratulations on that delightful absurdity about Nimzovitch[.]1951 July, A. W. Marschner, “Readers' Forum”, in Chess Review:
- That is what I plan to do at Yahoo: give the end user something valuable and delightful that makes them want to come to Yahoo every day.2013 December 11, Megan Garber, quoting Marissa Mayer, “Is ‘Delightful’ the New ‘Cool’?”, in The Atlantic:
Synonyms of delightful
Forms of delightful
| comparative | more delightful |
|---|---|
| comparative | delightfuler |
| comparative | delightfuller |
| superlative | most delightful |
| superlative | delightfulest |
| superlative | delightfullest |
| alternative form (archaic) | delightfull |
Origin of delightful
From Middle English deliteful, delitfull, equivalent to delight + -ful.
Words formed from delightful
Questions about delightful
- What does delightful mean?
- Delightful means pleasant; pleasing, bringing enjoyment, satisfaction, or pleasure.
- What is delightful in Hindi?
- Delightful in Hindi is सुखद (sukhad), सुखदायी (sukhdāyī), सुखदायक (sukhdāyak). See Delightful meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use delightful in a sentence?
- Congratulations on that delightful absurdity about Nimzovitch[.]
- What part of speech is delightful?
- Delightful is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce delightful?
- Delightful is pronounced /dəˈlaɪt.fl̩/.
Words near delightful in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: delightful (page history and authors); delightful (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); خجیر (Urdu) (page history and authors); delightful (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); delightful (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ଖୁସି (Odia) (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.
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