Synonyms for delightful
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Delicious — pleasant; pleasing, bringing enjoyment, satisfaction, or pleasure
delicious, lovely, delectable, nice, charming, beautiful, pleasant, enchanting, sweet, pleasing, enjoyable, glorious, heavenly, good, luscious, ravishing, bewitching, pleasurable, satisfying, engaging, congenial, gratifying
Definitions
- adj. 1
Pleasant; pleasing, bringing enjoyment, satisfaction, or pleasure.
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Enchanting, enrapturing, entrancing represent the influence as not only supernatural, but irresistible and delightful.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- lovely They bought a site with lovely views of the ocean.
- delicious I ate lots of delicious, juicy ham last Christmas.
- charming A young and charming gentleman offered me a candy.
- delectable Delectable odors of ham and toast pervaded the air.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| delightful | steady | |
| lovely | rising | |
| delicious | rising | |
| charming | rising | |
| delectable | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- good1, nice1
- 5 letters
- sweet1
- 6 letters
- lovely2
- 8 letters
- pleasant2, charming2, glorious3, engaging3, pleasing2, heavenly3, luscious2
- 9 letters
- beautiful3, delicious3, enjoyable4, ravishing3, congenial3
- 10 letters
- satisfying4, enchanting3, gratifying4, delectable4, bewitching
- 11 letters
- pleasurable4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (lovely2 = 2 syllables).