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Synonyms for delight
dɪˈlaɪtde·light

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English Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 3 votes

  1. delight

    To entertain, in the sense here considered, is to engage and pleasantly occupy the attention; to amuse is to occupy the attention in an especially bright and cheerful way, often with that which excites merriment or laughter; as, he entertained us with an amusing story. To divert is to turn from serious thoughts or laborious pursuits to something that lightly and agreeably occupies the mind; one may be entertained or amused who has nothing serious or laborious from which to be diverted. To recreate, literally to re-create, is to engage mind or body in some pleasing activity that restores strength and energy for serious work. To beguile is, as it were, to cheat into cheer and comfort by something that insensibly draws thought or feeling away from pain or disquiet. We beguile a weary hour, cheer the despondent, divert the preoccupied, enliven a dull evening or company, gratify our friends' wishes, entertain, interest, please a listening audience, occupy idle time, disport ourselves when merry, recreate when worn with toil; we amuse ourselves or others with whatever pleasantly passes the time without special exertion, each according to his taste.

    Synonyms:
    amuse, beguile, cheer, disport, divert, enliven, entertain, gratify, interest, occupy, please, recreate

    Antonyms:
    annoy, bore, busy, disquiet, distract, disturb, tire, weary

Princeton's WordNet4.5 / 2 votes

  1. delight, delectationnoun

    a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction

    "his delight to see her was obvious to all"

    Synonyms:
    joy, enjoyment, delectation, pleasure

  2. joy, delight, pleasureverb

    something or someone that provides a source of happiness

    "a joy to behold"; "the pleasure of his company"; "the new car is a delight"

    Synonyms:
    joyousness, joy, pleasance, delectation, pleasure, joyfulness

  3. please, delightverb

    give pleasure to or be pleasing to

    "These colors please the senses"; "a pleasing sensation"

    Synonyms:
    enthral, revel, enjoy, ravish, enrapture, enchant, enthrall, transport, please

  4. delight, enjoy, revelverb

    take delight in

    "he delights in his granddaughter"

    Synonyms:
    ravish, enjoy, savour, please, relish, transport, enthrall, make merry, enchant, bask, jollify, savor, whoop it up, racket, love, make whoopie, wassail, make happy, enrapture, revel, enthral

  5. enchant, enrapture, transport, enthrall, ravish, enthral, delightverb

    hold spellbound

    Synonyms:
    ship, transfer, ravish, capture, beguile, dishonour, enthrall, violate, dishonor, captivate, enamour, witch, trance, channelize, jinx, enamor, enthral, channelise, becharm, enrapture, channel, carry, transport, revel, entrance, rape, fascinate, charm, glamour, outrage, enjoy, catch, assault, send, hex, enchant, please, bewitch, transmit

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Dictionary of English Synonymes3.0 / 1 vote

  1. delightnoun

    Synonyms:
    joy, gladness, delectation, rapture, transport, ravishment, ecstasy, great pleasure

  2. delightverb

    Synonyms:
    enrapture, transport, enchant, charm, bless, please highly, gratify much

  3. delightverb

    Synonyms:
    take delight, have great pleasure

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "delight":

    joy, pleasure, satisfaction, rejoicing, happiness, rapture, delights, relish

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How to use delight in a sentence?

  1. Robert Frost:

    A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

  2. J. Krishnamurti:

    The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

  3. Gordana Biernat:

    Creativity flourishes when we are allowed to express our uniqueness for the JOY of it. No competition, just the delight of CREATING.

  4. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil:

    Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.

  5. Doris Lessing:

    All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.


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