delightful

English

Alternative forms

• delightfull (archaic)

Etymology

delight +‎ -ful

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [dɪˈlaɪtfəɫ]

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Adjective

delightful ‎(comparative more delightful, superlative most delightful)

1. Pleasant; pleasing, bringing satisfaction, enjoyment or pleasure.
   • 1977, Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, Part I, chapter4:

     An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.

Translations

pleasant; pleasing

• Bulgarian: възхитителен (bg) ‎(vǎzhititelen)
• Catalan: encantador
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 嫵媚 (zh), 妩媚 (zh) ‎(wǔmèi), 愉快 (zh) ‎(yúkuài)

• Finnish: ihastuttava (fi), ihana (fi)
• French: délicieux (fr)

  Old French: delitable

• German: reizvoll, entzückend (de), angenehm (de)
• Japanese: 楽しい (ja) ‎(たのしい, tanoshii), 愉快な (ja) ‎(ゆかいな, yukai na)
• Romanian: delicios (ro)
• Russian: восхити́тельный (ru) ‎(vosxitítelʹnyj), очарова́тельный (ru) ‎(očarovátelʹnyj), прия́тный (ru) ‎(prijátnyj)
• Spanish: delicioso (es) m