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Meaning of delightful | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1 Standard
dəˈlaɪt.fl̩

Definitions

  1. Pleasant; pleasing, bringing enjoyment, satisfaction, or pleasure.
  2. delicious, delectable, luscious

Equivalents

Examples

“What? a higher delight to be drawn from the sight / Of fish full of life and of glee? / What a noodle you are! ’tis delightfuller far / To kill them than let them go free!”
“O, Joy! quicker than fire! O, Hope of things! / O, gracious gladness mighty with delight! / O, subtle sweet, delightfuler than might! / Ah, me, no fiercer laughing unction springs / From the fair Hope of things!”
“Hon. Collier Weekly which furnish Japanese Schoolboy to public not often enough, when is his book coming out? […] That Boy is the dearest & sweetest & frankest & wisest & funniest & delightfulest & lovablest creation that has been added to our literature for a long time.”
“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'.”
“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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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