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delight
noun as in enjoyment, happiness
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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
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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
Complications arise and Baker delights in each and every one of them, creating a screwball comedy that will end up breaking your heart.”
“So he has a reason for everything,” says a visibly delighted Golijov, who answered Coppola’s call for that scene by writing a shimmering, surging love theme.
But “Wicked” will delight fans of the stage production as a faithful adaptation that is at once playful but reverent to the iconic “Defying Gravity.”
It’s a welcome time to reencounter “La Cage,” even if the production ultimately delights the senses more than it grabs the heart.
Prior to belting out her song, "Juno," Carpenter riffed with Domingo for a bit and threw him into some fuzzy handcuffs while everyone screamed with delight.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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