delight
give pleasure to or be pleasing to
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,042 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 17,669 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.008% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- give pleasure to or be pleasing to also: please These colors please the sensesa pleasing sensation
- take delight in also: enjoy, revel he delights in his granddaughter
- hold spellbound also: enchant, enrapture, transport, enthrall, ravish, enthral
noun
- a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction also: delectation his delight to see her was obvious to all
- something or someone that provides a source of happiness also: joy, pleasure a joy to beholdthe pleasure of his company
delight in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Both exclaimed in delight "How beautiful, mamma!"
Christmas with Grandma Elsie · Martha Finley · Chapter 1
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All things rejoice in youth and love, The fulness of their first delight!
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1
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Mrs. Dutton trembled with delight at being in the company of a man with such friends.
Admiral Peters Odd Craft, Part 14. · W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs · Chapter 1
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Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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On Sundays we walked to the cathedral, and this was a day with a delight of its own for me.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete · George Meredith · Chapter 1