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Delighted

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Filled with delight.

adj. Obsolete Delightful.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Greatly pleased.

adj. Filled with wonder and delight.

v. Simple past tense and past participle of delight.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Endowed with delight.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Greatly pleased; joyous; joyful.

Delightful; delighted-in.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. filled with wonder and delight

adj. greatly pleased

Word Usage

"As a proof that this view of the construction is correct, let L.B.L. substitute for "delighted spirit", _spirit no longer delighted_, and he will find that it gives precisely the sense which he deduces from the passage as it stands."

Equivalent

enchanted pleased

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

glad gratified pleased

Verb Stem

delight

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

United benighted blighted cited disinvited excited farsighted ignited incited indicted