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Synonyms for delight

  • verb
  • noun

Most common

please rejoice gladden gratify enchant charm love

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Rejoice — to give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly

please, rejoice, gladden, gratify, feast, entertain, happy, cheer, tickle, satisfy, enliven, regale, enrapture, cheer up, bright, content, perk up, divert, exhilarate, elate, happify, amuse

2. Enchant

enchant, charm, enthrall US, enthral UK, ravish, fascinate, bewitch, allure, transport, entrance, captivate, beguile, tempt, seduce, spellbind

3. Enjoy

love, enjoy, revel, wallow, indulge

Other

re-create, blithen

Noun

1. Joy — joy; pleasure

joy, gladness, enjoyment, joyfulness, happiness, glee, mirth, elation, gratification, exuberance, satisfaction, hilarity, ecstasy, bliss, enchantment, heaven, cheerfulness, felicity, jollity, rapture, blessedness, luxury

2. Pleasure

pleasure, relish, delectation, delection

Antonyms

displeasure, dismay, disappointment

All antonyms of delight →

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.

    A beautiful landscape delights the eye.

  2. v. 2

    To have or take great pleasure.

  3. n. 1

    Joy; pleasure.

  4. n. 2

    Something that gives great joy or pleasure.

Related words

Word family
delightful delicacy delicate delicatessen delicious
Phrases
delight in take delight in gardener's delight duper's delight queen's delight duping delight

Forms

Plural
delights → joys, gladnesses, enjoyments, joyfulnesses…
Past participle
delighted
e.g. delighted → pleased, rejoiced, gladdened, gratified…

Example sentences

  • feast The marriage feast continued for three whole days.
  • rejoice Our enemies will rejoice the moment we fall, idiot!
  • gratify She took the job only to gratify her husband.
  • charm These old buildings are what makes Algiers' charm.
  • enchant You need several wizards to enchant the necklace.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
delightrising
feastrising
rejoicerising
gratifysteady
gladdensteady
charmrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
joy1
4 letters
love1, glee1
5 letters
happy2, enjoy2, cheer1, charm1, feast1, bliss1, tempt1, amuse2, revel2, mirth1, elate2
6 letters
please1, bright1, heaven2, luxury3, divert2, relish2, tickle2, seduce2, allure2, wallow2, regale2, ravish
7 letters
content2, satisfy3, rejoice2, indulge2, ecstasy3, rapture2, elation3, enchant2, enliven3, gratify3, gladden2, bewitch2, beguile2, jollity
8 letters
pleasure2, entrance2, felicity4, hilarity4, gladness, enthrall
9 letters
transport2, happiness3, entertain3, enjoyment3, fascinate3, captivate3, enrapture3, spellbind, delection
10 letters
exuberance4, joyfulness, exhilarate4
11 letters
enchantment3, blessedness3, delectation
12 letters
satisfaction4, cheerfulness3
13 letters
gratification5

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (happy2 = 2 syllables).