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, chapter 4, An Autobiography:

     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, 妩媚 (zh) (wǔmèi), 愉快 (zh) (yúkuài)

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

  Old French: delitable

• German: reizvoll, entzückend, 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: восхитительный (ru) (vosxitítel'nnyj), очаровательный (ru) (očarovátel'nyj), приятный (ru) (prijátnyj)
• Spanish: delicioso (es) m