Delight synonyms and antonyms
dĭ-līt'
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A source of enjoyment or delight:
Enjoyment is defined as a state of feeling pleasure and joy, or is defined as something that causes you to experience pleasure and joy.
Intense and especially ecstatic or exultant happiness, or an instance of such feeling.
disappointment (antonym)
(Uncountable) The emotion felt when a strongly held expectation is not met.
The act of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite; as, the gratification of the palate, of the appetites, of the senses, of the desires, of the heart.
depress (antonym)
To lessen the activity or force of something; weaken.
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revel in
To take pleasure; often used with in
To raise the spirits of; make very proud, happy, or joyful
entertain (related)
(Intransitive) To have someone over at one's home for a party or visit.
(Obs.) To leap up; leap with joy
To feel love for a person:
To be agreeable; give pleasure; satisfy
luxuriate in
To take pleasure; often used with in
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The definition of delightful is someone or something that is charming or that causes happiness and joy.
Marlowe
To be a great success with; arouse enthusiasm in
pain (antonym)
(Informal) A source of annoyance; a nuisance:
To like or enjoy enthusiastically, often excessively.
groove on
To like or enjoy enthusiastically, often excessively.
delighted (related)
To taste or have the flavor (of something)
To use magic spells.
To give pleasure
The definition of idyllic is peaceful, tranquil or pretty.
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To experience or produce ecstasy or intense pleasure or satisfaction from or as if from a hallucinogenic drug or a mystical experience
(Rare, intransitive) To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
To give medical aid to counteract (a disease or condition):
distress (antonym)
Distress is defined as causing someone to feel anxious or depressed, or to finish a piece of furniture in a way that makes it look old or worn.
Also used with in: adore
To like or enjoy enthusiastically, often excessively.
To urge on or encourage by cheers
To touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which causes the recipient to feel a usually pleasant sensation of tingling or titillation.
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To cause to feel strong emotion, especially joy; carry away; enrapture.
To keep pleasantly or enjoyably occupied or interested; entertain
happiness (related)
Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; "” used especially of language.
like (related)
(Scots) To be pleased.
The definition of jubilation is a feeling of great happiness, triumph or joy.
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To make someone hold motionless; to spellbind
To please or satisfy:
To feel joyful about (something):
To feel a sudden sensation of pleasure or delight:
disappoint (antonym)
To frustrate or thwart:
gladden (related)
To make glad
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Marked by happiness or good fortune:
Elation is defined as a feeling of great happiness or joy.
The proceedings or events of a festival.
High-spirited fun and enjoyment; hilarity.
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To entertain at a feast or banquet
glad (related)
To answer or discharge (a claim, debt, legal demand, etc.); to give compensation for.
Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune.
To give pleasure
To make subservient; to enslave or subjugate.
To make subservient; to enslave or subjugate.
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displease (antonym)
To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at. It usually expresses less than to anger, vex, irritate, or provoke.
happy (related)
To feel or take joy or pleasure
To fill with great pleasure or delight; entrance; enchant
overjoy (related)
welcome (related)
Greatly pleasing to the taste; delicious.
In or like Elysium
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Highly gratifying to taste or smell, esp. because of a rich sweetness; delicious
The quality or condition of being exuberant.
Exultation is defined as rejoicing or giving praise.
The act of one who gloats.
dismay (antonym)
Dismay is defined as a sudden or total loss of courage.
sorrow (antonym)
The outward expression of such suffering; mourning; lamentation
unhappiness (antonym)
The feeling of not being happy
misery (antonym)
(Dial.) A pain (in some part of the body)
melancholy (antonym)
(Obs.) Black bile: in medieval times considered to be one of the four humors of the body, to come from the spleen or kidneys, and to cause gloominess, irritability, or depression
trouble (antonym)
A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
To force (another) to have sexual intercourse; rape.
disenchant (antonym)
To set free from an enchantment or illusion
proud (related)
looking forward to (related)
hope (related)
The definition of charming is fascinating or likeable.
The definition of delicious is something that tastes or smells really good or is enjoyable.
Of, like, or fit for paradise
To give pleasure
To feel or express great, often malicious, pleasure or self-satisfaction:
To provide hospitality for (someone); to supply with abundant food and drink. [from 17th c.]
grateful (related)
keen (related)
depression (antonym)
A depressing or being depressed
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