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DELIGHTFUL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Greatly pleasing or entertaining
Example:
a delicious joke
Synonyms:
delicious; delightful
Classified under:
Similar:
pleasing (giving pleasure and satisfaction)
Context examples:
Neither do I remember to have seen a more delightful prospect.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He could hardly follow her outlining of the work he must do, so amazed was he by her delightful propinquity.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It is so delightful that you should live at the cottage!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Anne would have been a delightful performer, had her health allowed her to learn.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Then down they all went, and at the bottom they found themselves in a most delightful grove of trees; and the leaves were all of silver, and glittered and sparkled beautifully.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
It was delightful.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
She was woman, my kind, on my plane, and the delightful intimacy of kind, of man and woman, was possible, as well as the reverence and awe in which I knew I should always hold her.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
While I was still in this delightful dream, we came suddenly in front of a large inn and met Squire Trelawney, all dressed out like a sea-officer, in stout blue cloth, coming out of the door with a smile on his face and a capital imitation of a sailor's walk.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Anne kept her appointment; the others kept theirs, and of course she heard the next morning that they had had a delightful evening.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
The anxious affection, which she was accused of having continually watched in Isabella's every look and action, had, in the course of their yesterday's party, received the delightful confession of an equal love.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
