delighted
Meaning of delighted
- feeling or showing great pleasure.
a delighted smile
we were delighted to see her
- please (someone) greatly.
an experience guaranteed to delight both young and old
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.
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Hyphenation of delighted
de-lighted
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- delighted is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
delighted synonyms
Meaning beguiled:
beguiled, captivated, charmed, enthralled, entranced
Meaning feeling pleasure or happiness:
Meaning feeling or showing pleasure or contentment:
Meaning feeling, expressing, or causing great pleasure and happiness:
Meaning cause (someone) to have a sudden feeling of excitement and pleasure:
Meaning extremely happy:
Meaning feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement:
Meaning characterized by or feeling intense excitement and happiness:
Meaning ecstatically happy:
Meaning providing perfect happiness or great joy:
Meaning give intense pleasure or joy to:
Meaning very enthusiastic and eager:
Meaning placed under a spell; bewitched:
Meaning provide (someone) with amusement or enjoyment:
Meaning give (someone) pleasure or satisfaction:
Meaning finding something funny or entertaining:
Meaning cause (someone or something) to change course or turn from one direction to another:
Meaning exuberantly or triumphantly joyful:
Meaning feeling or expressing jubilation after a victory or achievement:
Meaning (until the introduction of the euro in 2011) a monetary unit of Estonia, equal to one hundredth of a kroon:
Meaning very pleased:
Meaning overjoyed; delighted:
Meaning delight greatly:
Meaning fill (someone) with great delight; charm:
Meaning attract and hold the interest and attention of; charm:
Meaning an opening, such as a door, passage, or gate, that allows access to a place:
Meaning enchant and delight (someone):
Meaning cause (someone) to feel very enthusiastic and eager:
Meaning make glad:
Meaning provide interesting and enjoyable occupation for (someone); entertain:
Meaning entertain or amuse:
Meaning affect with powerful emotion; put into ecstasy:
Meaning cause (someone) amusement or pleasure:
delighted antonyms
Meaning cause (someone) to feel concern and distress:
Meaning sad or displeased because someone or something has failed to fulfil one's hopes or expectations:
Meaning make (someone) feel annoyed or dissatisfied:
Meaning cause (someone) to feel revulsion or strong disapproval:
Translation of delighted
- German: glückselig, hochbeglückt
- Italian: arcicontento, felicissimo, lietissimo, deliziato
- French: ravi, enchanté
- Spanish: encantado, encantada
Words that rhyme with delighted
clauchted, dichted, fechted, frichted, lichted, richted, strauchted, wauchted, yachted, acquighted, affrighted, afterthoughted, airfreighted, alighted, backlighted, bedighted, bednighted, beknighted, benighted, bighted, blighted, candlelighted, claughted, clearsighted, copyrighted, counterlighted, counterweighted, crosslighted, daylighted, dighted, distraughted, downweighted, enlighted, farsighted, flaughted, flighted, floodlighted, foresighted, forethoughted, fraughted, freighted, frighted, gaslighted, greenlighted, heighted, highlighted, highted, inrighted, insighted, jacklighted