delight
Meaning of delight
- please (someone) greatly.
an experience guaranteed to delight both young and old
- 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.
- Languages in which delight is used:
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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:
Meaning joy:
Meaning please:
Meaning enjoy:
Meaning enchant:
enchant, enrapture, transport, enthrall, ravish, enthral
Meaning delight greatly:
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 have a sudden feeling of excitement and pleasure:
Meaning cause (someone) to feel very enthusiastic and eager:
Meaning make glad:
Meaning give (someone) pleasure or satisfaction:
Meaning provide (someone) with amusement or enjoyment:
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:
Meaning the state of being happy:
Meaning great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or another's misfortune:
Meaning pleasure, especially when gained from the satisfaction of a desire:
Meaning liking for or pleasurable anticipation of something:
Meaning something that arouses a feeling of excitement:
Meaning the state or experience of finding something funny:
Meaning perfect happiness; great joy:
Meaning a feeling of intense pleasure or joy:
Meaning an overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement:
Meaning great happiness and exhilaration:
Meaning a feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness:
Meaning physical or intellectual pleasure, delight, or ecstasy:
delight antonyms
Meaning cause (someone) to feel concern and distress:
Meaning make (someone) feel annoyed or dissatisfied:
Meaning cause (someone) to feel revulsion or strong disapproval:
Meaning a feeling of annoyance or disapproval:
Meaning highly unpleasant physical sensation caused by illness or injury:
Translation of delight
- Spanish: gustar, agradar, complacer, satisfacer, contentar, goce, gozo, cautivar, encantar
- Portuguese: agradar, encantar
- German: befriedigen, zufriedenstellen, Genuss, bezaubern
- Italian: soddisfare, contentare, appagare, accontentare, gratificare, godimento, rapire, incantare, ammaliare, affascinare
- French: assouvir, satisfaire, contenter, combler, réjouir, jouissance, charmer
Anagrams of delight
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