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Word entry · 10 letters

delightful

Best crossword clue

"Giving pleasure"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /dəˈlaɪt.fl̩/Part of speech adjectiveSorted defghilltuStarts with DEnds with L1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. greatly pleasing or entertaining

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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!
  • Congratulations on that delightful absurdity about Nimzovitch[.]

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