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delight
noun as in enjoyment, happiness
Strongest matches
Strong matches
delectation, ecstasy, enchantment, felicity, fruition, gladness, gratification, hilarity, jollity, mirth, rapture, relish, transport
Weak match
verb as in make happy; experience happiness
Strongest matches
amuse, attract, charm, cheer, enchant, enrapture, entertain, fascinate, gratify, please, rejoice, satisfy, thrill, wow
Strong matches
allure, content, divert, exult, gladden, glory, groove, jubilate, pleasure, ravish, score, send, slay
Weak matches
arride, be the ticket, delectate, freak out, go over big, hit the spot, knock dead, knock out, tickle pink, tickle to death, turn on
Example Sentences
His surprise marriage to theater director Sophie Hunter may have broken hearts, but the squeals of delight were even louder.
Then they sat down at the dinner table and ate with delight.
One gets the impression that God would take great delight in letting them go.
But I also want jazz to be loved and enjoyed, to serve as a source of enchantment and delight.
Our brains and bodies delight in the sweet stuff, in the same way we might respond to a drug, causing us to want more and more.
He held it, but it was without pressure; without recognizance of the delight with which he once grasped it.
Terror drives you on; fate coerces you; you can't help yourself, and my delight is to make the plunge terrible.
Louis listened with pleasure, and dwelt with delight on the interesting Princess and her son.
It was her delight to mingle politics and chivalric devotion, in their long conferences.
The morning we started was one of those perfect autumnal days when it is a delight simply to live.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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