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delightly

delightly adverb: delightedly; with delight.

Adverb

delightly (comparative more delightly, superlative most delightly)

  1. (nonstandard) delightedly; with delight
    • “Oh, the reporter. Welcome to Wise,” she said delightly, betraying any hint of a problem with business in town. [...]”2000, Robert Arnold, Noel
    • Miss Agnew, obviously having received further inspiration, went on delightly: “Since you're a woman of the cloth!”2010, Kate Braestrup, Marriage and Other Acts of Charity

Forms of delightly

comparativemore delightly
superlativemost delightly

Origin of delightly

From delight + -ly.

Questions about delightly

What does delightly mean?
Delightly means delightedly; with delight.
What part of speech is delightly?
Delightly is an adverb.

Words near delightly in the dictionary

  1. delightfulness
  2. delighting
  3. delighting in
  4. delightingly
  5. delightless
  6. delightly
  7. delightment
  8. delightous
  9. delights
  10. delights in
  11. delightsome

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