Word Meanings - DELIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A high degree of gratification of mind; a high-wrought state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction; joy. Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Shak. A fool hath no delight in understanding. Prov. xviii.

Additional info about word: DELIGHT

1. A high degree of gratification of mind; a high-wrought state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction; joy. Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Shak. A fool hath no delight in understanding. Prov. xviii. 2. 2. That which gives great pleasure or delight. Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight. Milton. 3. Licentious pleasure; lust. Chaucer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DELIGHT)

• Darling
• Pet
• love
• sweet
• pretty
• dear
• favorite
• delight
• Divert
• Alter
• change
• deflect
• alienate
• please
• gratify
• entertain
• amuse
• Ecstasy
• Rapture
• inspiration
• fervor
• frenzy
• transport
• emotion
• joy
• enthusiasm
• happiness
• Exultation
• Transport
• triumph
• ecstasy
• Gratification
• Pleasure
• enjoyment
• satisfaction
• indulgence
• reward

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DELIGHT)

• Conserve
• retain
• stabilitate
• fix
• clinch
• stand
• endure
• last
• hold
• Punish
• misrequite

Related words: (words related to DELIGHT)

• SWEETLY
  In a sweet manner.
• SWEETISH
  Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• REWARDFUL
  Yielding reward.
• SWEETING
  1. A sweet apple. Ascham. 2. A darling; -- a word of endearment. Shak.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• PUNISHER
  One who inflicts punishment.
• REWARD
  To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate. After the deed that is done, one doom shall reward, Mercy or no mercy as truth will accord. Piers Plowman. Thou hast rewarded
• ALTERNATING CURRENT
  A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
• ALTERNATION
  Permutation. 3. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. Alternation of generation. See under Generation. (more info) 1. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• SWEETROOT
  Licorice.
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• TRANSPORTABILITY
  The quality or state of being transportable.
• FAVORITE
  Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. Farquhar. (more info) p.p. of OF. favorir, cf. It. favorito, frm. favorita, fr. favorire to 1. A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• ALTERNAT
  A usage, among diplomats, of rotation in precedence among representatives of equal rank, sometimes determined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations.
• SUBALTERNANT
  A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2. Whately.
• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• MISALTER
  To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall.
• SHOREWARD
  Toward the shore.
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• REEXCHANGE
  To exchange anew; to reverse .