delightfully
/dɪlˈaɪtfəli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.91 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a delightful manner.
Example Sentences
- "The result, disappointingly, is a scattershot work that is, by turns, entertaining and wearisome, energetic and hokey, delightfully evocative and cheaply sensational; dead-on in its conjuring of zeitgeist-y atmospherics, but often slow-footed and ham-handed in its orchestration of social details."
Etymology
Etymology tree English delightful Middle English -ly English -ly English delightfully From delightful + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more delightfully (comparative)
most delightfully (superlative)