delight

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Joy; pleasure.
2. (countable, uncountable) Something that gives great joy or pleasure.

Verb

1. To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.
2. (intransitive) To have or take great pleasure.

Synonyms

joy

😂

pleasure

happiness

enjoyment

please

gladness

gratification

enjoy

rejoice

bliss

rapture

satisfaction

charm

enrapture

amuse

happy

😀

gladden

make happy

glee

revel

cheerfulness

rejoicing

delectation

exultation

enchant

cheer

satisfy

glad

ecstasy

exult

enthral

gratify

jubilation

merriment

entertain

treat

joyfulness

hilarity

great joy

make glad

ravish

content

thrill

enthrall

take pleasure

admiration

beauty

high spirits

elation

captivate

Translations

Freude

😂

delizia

joie

😂

alegria

😂

plaisir

gioia

😂

vreugde

😂

Vergnügen

😂

diletto

deleite

délice

deliziare

ravir

Lust

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dəˈlaɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: delite

In summary

Attested from the 13th century, from Middle English delite, from Old French deleiter, deliter, from Latin dēlectāre (“to delight, please”), frequentative of dēlicere (“to allure, entice”), from dē- (“away”) + laciō (“I lure, I deceive”), from Proto-Italic *lakjō (“to draw, pull”), of unknown ultimate origin. Doublet of delect. Related with delectation, delicate, delicious and dilettante. The modern unetymological spelling (instead of expected delite) is influenced by light and other words ending in -ight, such as might, bright, etc. The -gh- may also be an attempt to represent the Latin -c-; compare obsolete indight for indict.