Word Meanings - DELIGHTLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Void of delight. Thomson.

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• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• DELIGHTOUS
  Delightful. Rom. of R.
• THOMSONIANISM
  An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts.
• DELIGHTFUL
  Highly pleasing; affording great pleasure and satisfaction. "Delightful bowers." Spenser. "Delightful fruit." Milton. Syn. -- Delicious; charming. See Delicious. -- De*light"ful*ly, adv. -- De*light"ful*ness, n.
• DELIGHTSOME
  Very pleasing; delightful. "Delightsome vigor." Grew. Ye shall be a delightsome land, . . . saith the Lord. Mal. iii. 12. -- De*light"some*ly, adv. -- De*light"some*ness, n.
• 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.
• DELIGHTEDLY
  With delight; gladly.
• THOMSON PROCESS
  A process of electric welding in which heat is developed by a large current passing through the metal.
• DELIGHTED
  Endowed with delight. If virtue no delighted beauty lack. Shak. Syn. -- Glad; pleased; gratified. See Glad.
• DELIGHTABLE
  Capable of delighting; delightful. Many a spice delightable. Rom. of R.
• DELIGHTER
  One who gives or takes delight.
• THOMSONITE
  A zeolitic mineral, occurring generally in masses of a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda. Called also mesole, and comptonite.
• THOMSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Thomsonianism. -- n.
• OVERDELIGHTED
  Delighted beyond measure.