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undelightful

undelightful adjective: not delightful.

Adjective

undelightful (comparative more undelightful, superlative most undelightful)

  1. Not delightful.
    • [Y]our Harriet may turn gadfly, and never be eaſy but vvhen ſhe is forming parties, or giving vvay to them, that may make the home, that hitherto has been the chief ſcene of her pleaſures, undelightful to her.1753 (indicated as 1754), [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XVIII. Miss Byron. In Continuation.”, in The History of Sir Charles Grandison. […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by C....
    • Every trick that money can play with the most lavish abundance of water is here exhibited; nor is the sight of a jet d'eau, or the murmur of an artificial cascade, undelightful in a hot day, let the Nature-mongers say what they please.1789, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I

Forms of undelightful

comparativemore undelightful
superlativemost undelightful

Origin of undelightful

From un- + delightful.

Words formed from undelightful

Questions about undelightful

What does undelightful mean?
Undelightful means not delightful.
What part of speech is undelightful?
Undelightful is an adjective.

Words near undelightful in the dictionary

  1. undelible
  2. undelicate
  3. undelicious
  4. undelight
  5. undelighted
  6. undelightful
  7. undelightfully
  8. undelightfulness
  9. undelighting
  10. undelights
  11. undelightsome

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