When you like someone, you might say, "She is an absolute delight." You mean you think she's great: a delight is a source of joy, and to delight is to cause pleasure. Babies are particularly good at expressing delight in new things.
A high degree of gratification of mind; a high-wrought state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction; joy.
Noun
something or someone that provides pleasure; a source of happiness; "a joy to behold"; "the pleasure of his company"; "the new car is a delight"
Noun
a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction; "his delight to see her was obvious to all"
Verb
take delight in; "he delights in his granddaughter"
Verb
give pleasure to or be pleasing to; "These colors please the senses"; "a pleasing sensation"
Verb
hold spellbound
v. t.
A high degree of gratification of mind; a high- wrought
state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction;
joy.
v. t.
That which gives great pleasure or delight.
v. t.
Licentious pleasure; lust.
v. t.
To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to
please highly; as, a beautiful landscape delights the eye; harmony
delights the ear.
v. i.
To have or take great delight or pleasure; to be
greatly pleased or rejoiced; -- followed by an infinitive, or by in.
Delight
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
A fool hath no delight in understanding.2.
Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight.3.
Delight
Inventions to delight the taste.
Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds.
Delight
Love delights in praises.
I delight to do thy will, O my God.
A high degree of gratification of mind; a high-wrought state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction; joy.
To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly;
To have or take great delight or pleasure; to be greatly pleased or rejoiced; -- followed by an infinitive, or by in.
Usage Examples
I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'
As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.
'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.
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Other Usage ExamplesAnd I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.
Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.
And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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