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Webster 1828 Edition

Delightful

DELIGHTFUL

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Adj.

Highly pleasing; affording great pleasure and satisfaction; as a delightful thought; a delightful prospect.

Definition 2024

delightful

delightful

English

Alternative forms

delightfull (archaic)

Adjective

delightful ‎(comparative more delightful, superlative most delightful)

Pleasant; pleasing, bringing satisfaction, enjoyment or pleasure.
- 1977, Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, Part I, chapter4:
  An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.

Translations

pleasant; pleasing

Bulgarian: възхитителен (bg) ‎(vǎzhititelen)
Catalan: encantador
Chinese:
Mandarin: 嫵媚 (zh), 妩媚 (zh) ‎(wǔmèi), 愉快 (zh) ‎(yúkuài)
Estonian: rõõmustav
Finnish: ihastuttava (fi), ihana (fi)
French: délicieux (fr)
Old French: delitable

German: reizvoll, entzückend (de), angenehm (de)
Japanese: 楽しい (ja) ‎(たのしい, tanoshii), 愉快な (ja) ‎(ゆかいな, yukai na)
Romanian: delicios (ro)
Russian: восхити́тельный (ru) ‎(vosxitítelʹnyj), очарова́тельный (ru) ‎(očarovátelʹnyj), прия́тный (ru) ‎(prijátnyj)
Spanish: delicioso (es) m