delightful
/dəˈlaɪt.fl̩/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.77 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "What? a higher delight to be drawn from the sight / Of fish full of life and of glee? / What a noodle you are! ’tis delightfuller far / To kill them than let them go free!"
- "O, Joy! quicker than fire! O, Hope of things! / O, gracious gladness mighty with delight! / O, subtle sweet, delightfuler than might! / Ah, me, no fiercer laughing unction springs / From the fair Hope of things!"
- "Hon. Collier Weekly which furnish Japanese Schoolboy to public not often enough, when is his book coming out? […] That Boy is the dearest & sweetest & frankest & wisest & funniest & delightfulest & lovablest creation that has been added to our literature for a long time."
- "Congratulations on that delightful absurdity about Nimzovitch[.]"
- "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'."
- "That is what I plan to do at Yahoo: give the end user something valuable and delightful that makes them want to come to Yahoo every day."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more delightful (comparative)
delightfuler (comparative)
delightfuller (comparative)
most delightful (superlative)
delightfulest (superlative)
delightfullest (superlative)
delightfull (alternative, archaic)