delightful

delightful

English

Etymology

From Middle English deliteful, delitfull, equivalent to delight +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): [dəˈlaɪ̯t̚.fəɫ]

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• Hyphenation: de‧light‧ful

Adjective

delightful (comparative more delightful, superlative most delightful)

1. Pleasant; pleasing, bringing enjoyment, satisfaction, or pleasure.
   • 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN:

     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'.

   • 2013 December 11, Megan Garber, quoting Marissa Mayer, “Is ‘Delightful’ the New ‘Cool’?”, in The Atlantic‎:

     That is what I plan to do at Yahoo: give the end user something valuable and delightful that makes them want to come to Yahoo every day.

Alternative forms

• delightfull (archaic)

Translations

pleasant; pleasing

Arabic: بَهِيج‎ (bahīj) Azerbaijani: fərəhli Bikol Central: masanggaya Bulgarian: възхитителен (bg) (vǎzhititelen) Catalan: encantador Chinese: Mandarin: 嫵媚 (zh), 妩媚 (zh) (wǔmèi), 愉快 (zh) (yúkuài) Esperanto: rava Estonian: rõõmustav Finnish: ihastuttava (fi), ihana (fi) French: délicieux (fr) Old French: delitable German: reizvoll (de), entzückend (de), angenehm (de) Greek: Ancient: τερπνός (terpnós), θυμήρης (thumḗrēs) Irish: caithiseach Japanese: 楽しい (ja) (たのしい, tanoshii), 愉快な (ja) (ゆかいな, yukai na) Korean: 매우 기쁜 (mae'u gippeun) Latin: iūcundus, voluptuosus Persian: دلپذیر‎ (fa) (delpazir), دلپسند‎ (fa) (delpasand) Romanian: delicios (ro) Russian: восхити́тельный (ru) (vosxitítelʹnyj), очарова́тельный (ru) (očarovátelʹnyj), прия́тный (ru) (prijátnyj) Sanskrit: रम्य (sa) (ramya) Spanish: delicioso (es)