delightfully

C1 Topic:Mind & Cognition
US /dɪˈlaɪtfəli/
adv Freq #34818

Meanings

  1. 1
    adv

    in a delightful manner

    The farm house, though in itself a small one, is delightfully situated.

  2. 2
    adv

    In a delightful manner.

    The result, disappointingly, is a scattershot work that is, by turns, entertaining and wearisome, energetic and hokey, delightfully evocative and cheaply sensational; dead-on in its conjuring of zeitgeist-y atmospherics, but often slow-footed and ham-handed in its orchestration of social details.

Etymology

From delightful + -ly.

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