delight

Meaning of delight

verb
  1. please (someone) greatly.
    an experience guaranteed to delight both young and old
noun
  1. great pleasure.
    the little girls squealed with delight
    we broke into an impromptu dance, to the delight of the crowd
    she took great delight in telling your story

Middle English: from Old French delitier (verb), delit (noun), from Latin delectare ‘to charm’, frequentative of delicere . The -gh- was added in the 16th century by association with light1.

Information about delight

  • The plural form of delight is: delights.
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Hyphenation of delight

de-light

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • delight is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

delight synonyms

Meaning delectation:

delectation

Meaning joy:

joy, pleasure

Meaning please:

please

Meaning enjoy:

enjoy, revel

Meaning enchant:

enchant, enrapture, transport, enthrall, ravish, enthral

Meaning delight greatly:

charm

Meaning attract and hold the interest and attention of; charm:

captivate

Meaning an opening, such as a door, passage, or gate, that allows access to a place:

entrance

Meaning enchant and delight (someone):

bewitch

Meaning cause (someone) to have a sudden feeling of excitement and pleasure:

thrill

Meaning cause (someone) to feel very enthusiastic and eager:

excite

Meaning make glad:

gladden

Meaning give (someone) pleasure or satisfaction:

gratify

Meaning provide (someone) with amusement or enjoyment:

entertain

Meaning provide interesting and enjoyable occupation for (someone); entertain:

amuse

Meaning entertain or amuse:

divert

Meaning affect with powerful emotion; put into ecstasy:

send

Meaning cause (someone) amusement or pleasure:

tickle

Meaning the state of being happy:

happiness

Meaning great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or another's misfortune:

glee

Meaning pleasure, especially when gained from the satisfaction of a desire:

gratification

Meaning liking for or pleasurable anticipation of something:

relish

Meaning something that arouses a feeling of excitement:

excitement

Meaning the state or experience of finding something funny:

amusement

Meaning perfect happiness; great joy:

bliss

Meaning a feeling of intense pleasure or joy:

rapture

Meaning an overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement:

ecstasy

Meaning great happiness and exhilaration:

elation

Meaning a feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness:

euphoria

Meaning physical or intellectual pleasure, delight, or ecstasy:

jouissance

delight antonyms

Meaning cause (someone) to feel concern and distress:

dismay

Meaning make (someone) feel annoyed or dissatisfied:

displease

Meaning cause (someone) to feel revulsion or strong disapproval:

disgust

Meaning a feeling of annoyance or disapproval:

displeasure

Meaning highly unpleasant physical sensation caused by illness or injury:

pain

Translation of delight

Anagrams of delight

lighted

Words that rhyme with delight

costraight, noncostraight, overstraight, straight, unstraight, upstraight, bight, adight, bedight, benedight, dight, misdight, overdight, undight, Creight, Speight, Weight, affreight, aheight, airfreight, bantamweight, befreight, birthweight, bodyweight, breastheight, catchweight, countersleight, counterweight, cruiserweight, deadweight, downweight, eight, featherweight, flyweight, freight, heavyweight, height, hundredweight, inweight, keight, letterweight, lightweight, liveweight, makeweight, middleweight, outweight, overfreight, overheight, overweight, paperweight

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