Delights synonyms and antonyms

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festivities
A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival.
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pleasures
One's preference or wish:
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joys
Dryden
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transports
A ship or aircraft used to transport troops or military equipment.
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raptures
The state of being transported by a lofty emotion; ecstasy.
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ecstasies
(Medicine, dated) A state in which sensibility, voluntary motion, and (largely) mental power are suspended; the body is erect and inflexible; but the pulse and breathing are not affected.
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charms
An item worn for its supposed magical benefit, as in warding off evil; an amulet.
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ravishes
To transport with joy or delight; enrapture
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enraptures
To fill with rapture or delight.
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enchants
Enchant is defined as to cast a spell on, or to delight someone.
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revels
To make merry; to have a gay, lively time.
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enjoys
To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something
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rejoices
(Intransitive) To be very happy, be delighted, exult; to feel joy. [from 14th c.]
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exults
To rejoice, be very happy
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pleases
(Intransitive, ergative) To desire; to will; to be pleased by.
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tickles
To please, gratify, delight, etc.
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gratifies
To please.
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gladdens
To cause (something) to become more glad.
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cheers
To make happier or more cheerful:
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wows
(Informal) To amaze or awe.
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treats
To provide with something that pleases
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thrills
(Ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.
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satisfies
To give satisfaction.
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relishes
(Now Rare) To give flavor
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regales
To please or entertain (someone). [from 17th c.]
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gloats
The definition of gloat is to brag or to have a feeling of self-satisfaction.
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fascinates
To hold the attention of by being very interesting or delightful; charm; captivate
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entertains
(Obsolete) To give admittance to; receive.
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elates
To elate is defined as to make happy, excited or proud.
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amuses
To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing emotions.
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loves
To like or desire enthusiastically:
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jubilations
The act of rejoicing.
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gratifications
(Archaic) Reward or recompense for services or benefits
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exultations
The act of exulting; lively joy at success or victory, or at any advantage gained; rapturous delight; triumph.
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elations
An exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism; an absence of depression
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enjoyments
Pleasure; gratification; joy
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troubles (antonym)
A distressful or dangerous situation.
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melancholies (antonym)
Sadness and depression of spirits
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miseries (antonym)
A cause of such suffering; pain, sorrow, poverty, squalor, etc.
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pains (antonym)
Bodily suffering characterized by such feelings:
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sorrows (antonym)
(Countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.
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dismays (antonym)
A feeling of discouragement or consternation, as at the prospect of trouble
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displeases (antonym)
To give displeasure or offense.
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depresses (antonym)
To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy.
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distresses (antonym)
To cause sorrow, misery, or suffering to; pain
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disappoints (antonym)
To cause disappointment
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disappointments (antonym)
Disappointment is defined as a feeling of sadness, dissatisfaction or displeasure when something isn't as you planned.
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depressions (antonym)
A reduction in physiological vigor or activity:
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likes (related)
The definition of a like is a preference or something that one enjoys.
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happinesses (related)
The emotion of being happy; joy.
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disenchants (antonym)
To make no longer pleased with or charmed by someone or something
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  • This mask, which furnished abundant opportunities for the decorators, musicians and dancers, in showing forth how the seasons and their delights are successively exhausted by a "wanton darling," Raybright the grandchild of the Sun, is said to have been very popular.

  • The delights of love are made to stand for the raptures of union with the divine, the tavern symbolizes an oratory, and intoxication is the bewilderment of sense before the surpassing vision.

  • As a boy, Henry drove his mother's cow to the pastures, and thus early became enamoured of certain aspects of nature and of certain delights of solitude.

  • In his train also are found Enyo, the goddess of war who delights in bloodshed and the destruction of cities; his sister, Eris, goddess of fighting and strife; and the Keres, goddesses of death, whose function it is especially to roam the battle-field, carrying off the dead to Hades.

  • The rhythmical and artistic form of the sentence is sacrificed to a passion for emphasis that delights in deferring the point to the close of the period.

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