Delight Synonyms and Antonyms
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Synonyms for Delight
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.
To taste or have the flavor (of something)
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.
revel in
To take pleasure; often used with in
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To use magic spells.
To raise the spirits of; make very proud, happy, or joyful
(Obs.) To leap up; leap with joy
To feel love for a person:
To feel joyful about (something):
To be agreeable; give pleasure; satisfy
To like or enjoy enthusiastically, often excessively.
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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
To give pleasure
Also used with in: adore
To like or enjoy enthusiastically, often excessively.
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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.
The definition of idyllic is peaceful, tranquil or pretty.
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):
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To cause to feel strong emotion, especially joy; carry away; enrapture.
luxuriate in
To take pleasure; often used with in
groove on
To like or enjoy enthusiastically, often excessively.
The definition of jubilation is a feeling of great happiness, triumph or joy.
To make someone hold motionless; to spellbind
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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.
To entertain at a feast or banquet
To give pleasure
To make subservient; to enslave or subjugate.
To make subservient; to enslave or subjugate.
To please or satisfy:
To fill with great pleasure or delight; entrance; enchant
To keep pleasantly or enjoyably occupied or interested; entertain
To answer or discharge (a claim, debt, legal demand, etc.); to give compensation for.
Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune.
Greatly pleasing to the taste; delicious.
In or like Elysium
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.
To force (another) to have sexual intercourse; rape.
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.]
Antonyms for Delight
(Uncountable) The emotion felt when a strongly held expectation is not met.
To lessen the activity or force of something; weaken.
(Informal) A source of annoyance; a nuisance:
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.
To frustrate or thwart:
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.
Dismay is defined as a sudden or total loss of courage.
The outward expression of such suffering; mourning; lamentation
The feeling of not being happy
(Dial.) A pain (in some part of the body)
(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
To cause difficulty or inconvenience to; incommode
To set free from an enchantment or illusion
A depressing or being depressed
Words Related to Delight
(Intransitive) To have someone over at one's home for a party or visit.
To make glad
Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; "” used especially of language.
(Scots) To be pleased.
To feel or take joy or pleasure
looking forward to
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