Word Meanings - SOMEDEAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Thou lackest somedeal their delight. Spenser.
Related words: (words related to SOMEDEAL)
- DELIGHTING
Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor. - DELIGHTLESS
Void of delight. Thomson. - DELIGHTOUS
Delightful. Rom. of R. - SOMEDEAL
Thou lackest somedeal their delight. Spenser. - 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. - 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. - SPENSERIAN
Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faƫrie Queene." - DELIGHTER
One who gives or takes delight. - THEIR
The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham. - DISPENSER
One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors. - OVERDELIGHTED
Delighted beyond measure.