delightfully
delightfully adverb: in a delightful manner.
Adverb
delightfully (comparative more delightfully, superlative most delightfully)
- In a delightful manner.
- The result, disappointingly, is a scattershot work that is, by turns, entertaining and wearisome, energetic and hokey, delightfully evocative and cheaply sensational; dead-on in its conjuring of zeitgeist-y atmospherics, but often slow-footed and ham-handed in its orchestration of social details.2013 September 10, Michiko Kakutani, “A Calamity Tailor-Made for Internet Conspiracy Theories”, in The New York Times
Examples of delightfully in a sentence
- It’s delightfully crisp and refreshing with notes of sea salt, white peach and kiwi fruit.
- As the language writer Stan Carey delightfully sums it up: “‘Because’ has become a preposition, because grammar.”
- They delightfully ring to greet the rising sun and still tingle during the darkest night.
Forms of delightfully
| comparative | more delightfully |
|---|---|
| superlative | most delightfully |
Origin of delightfully
From delightful + -ly.
Questions about delightfully
- What does delightfully mean?
- Delightfully means in a delightful manner.
- What part of speech is delightfully?
- Delightfully is an adverb.
Words near delightfully in the dictionary
Source and license
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