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Delightful

//dəˈlaɪt.fl̩// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Pleasant; pleasing, bringing enjoyment, satisfaction, or pleasure.

    "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!"

Adjective
  1. 1
    greatly pleasing or entertaining wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English deliteful, delitfull, equivalent to delight + -ful.

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