take pleasure

English

Verb

take pleasure (third-person singular simple present takes pleasure, present participle taking pleasure, simple past took pleasure, past participle taken pleasure)

1. To have enjoyment. [with in]

   Is it wrong to take pleasure in other people's misfortunes?

Synonyms

• delight in

Translations

to have enjoyment

• Arabic: تَلَذَّذَ (talaḏḏaḏa), اِلْتَذَّ (iltaḏḏa), تَمَتَّعَ (tamattaʕa)
• Finnish: iloita (fi), riemuita (fi), nauttia (fi), ottaa ilo irti
• French: prendre du plaisir
• Galician: compracerse
• Korean: 즐기다 (ko) (jeulgida)
• Maori: whakaahuareka
• Persian: لذت بردن (fa) (lezzat bordan)
• Polish: cieszyć się impf, czerpać przyjemność impf
• Sanskrit: उच्यति (sa) (ucyati), रणति (sa) (raṇati)
• Spanish: complacerse (es), regodearse (es)
• Tajik: лаззат бурдан (lazzat burdan)