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delightfull

delightfull is the archaic form of delightful.

Meaning of delightful

Adjective

delightful (comparative more delightful or delightfuler or delightfuller, superlative most delightful or delightfulest or delightfullest)

  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!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...

Forms of delightfull

comparativemore delightfull
superlativemost delightfull

Questions about delightfull

What is delightfull the archaic form of?
Delightfull is the archaic form of delightful.

Words near delightfull in the dictionary

  1. delightest
  2. delighteth
  3. delightful
  4. delightfuler
  5. delightfulest
  6. delightfull
  7. delightfuller
  8. delightfullest
  9. delightfully
  10. delightfulness
  11. delighting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: delightfull (page history and authors); delightful (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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