Delight synonyms
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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.
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.
disappoint (antonym)
To frustrate or thwart:
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.
depress (antonym)
To lessen the activity or force of something; weaken.
(Obs.) To leap up; leap with joy
To use magic spells.
To taste or have the flavor (of something)
entertain (related)
(Intransitive) To have someone over at one's home for a party or visit.
revel in
To take pleasure; often used with in
The definition of idyllic is peaceful, tranquil or pretty.
To raise the spirits of; make very proud, happy, or joyful
To make someone hold motionless; to spellbind
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.
Intense and especially ecstatic or exultant happiness, or an instance of such feeling.
To be agreeable; give pleasure; satisfy
To keep pleasantly or enjoyably occupied or interested; entertain
luxuriate in
To take pleasure; often used with in
happiness (related)
Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; "” used especially of language.
gladden (related)
To make glad
like (related)
(Scots) To be pleased.
Greatly pleasing to the taste; delicious.
The definition of delightful is someone or something that is charming or that causes happiness and joy.
In or like Elysium
Marked by happiness or good fortune:
Highly gratifying to taste or smell, esp. because of a rich sweetness; delicious
Of, like, or fit for paradise
Marlowe
Elation is defined as a feeling of great happiness or joy.
The quality or condition of being exuberant.
Exultation is defined as rejoicing or giving praise.
The proceedings or events of a festival.
The act of one who gloats.
The definition of jubilation is a feeling of great happiness, triumph or joy.
High-spirited fun and enjoyment; hilarity.
A carrying away or being carried away in body or spirit
schadenfreude
Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune.
To entertain at a feast or banquet
To give pleasure
To give pleasure
To feel or express great, often malicious, pleasure or self-satisfaction:
To please or satisfy:
To give pleasure
To provide hospitality for (someone); to supply with abundant food and drink. [from 17th c.]
To feel joyful about (something):
To answer or discharge (a claim, debt, legal demand, etc.); to give compensation for.
To feel a sudden sensation of pleasure or delight:
To transport is defined as to take someone to another place in their mind with a strong emotion.
To give medical aid to counteract (a disease or condition):
To be a great success with; arouse enthusiasm in
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
pain (antonym)
(Informal) A source of annoyance; a nuisance:
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)
To cause difficulty or inconvenience to; incommode
Also used with in: adore
To like or enjoy enthusiastically, often excessively.
To like or enjoy enthusiastically, often excessively.
To feel love for a person:
groove on
To like or enjoy enthusiastically, often excessively.
To urge on or encourage by cheers
To fill with joy; delight.
To touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which causes the recipient to feel a usually pleasant sensation of tingling or titillation.
happy (related)
A feeling of extreme gratification aroused by something good or desired
To make subservient; to enslave or subjugate.
To force (another) to have sexual intercourse; rape.
To make subservient; to enslave or subjugate.
disenchant (antonym)
To set free from an enchantment or illusion
The definition of charming is fascinating or likeable.
The definition of delicious is something that tastes or smells really good or is enjoyable.
To experience or produce ecstasy or intense pleasure or satisfaction from or as if from a hallucinogenic drug or a mystical experience
depression (antonym)
A depressing or being depressed
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