delightful
B1
adj
Freq #6348
Meanings
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1
adj
greatly pleasing or entertaining
a delightful surprise
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2
adj
Pleasant; pleasing, bringing enjoyment, satisfaction, or pleasure.
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!
Etymology
From Middle English deliteful, delitfull, equivalent to delight + -ful.
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