delight
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)Joy; pleasure.
Đồng nghĩa: delightedness, joy, glee, blitheness, blithesomeness, cheerfulness, cheeriness, contentness, contentedness, delight, delightedness, elatedness, elation, exuberance, exuberantness, felicity, gaiety, gayness, gayfulness, gladness, gladsomeness, glee, gleefulness, gleesomeness, happiness, high spirits, hilarity, jolliness, jollity, joviality, jovialness, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, liss, merriment, merriness, mirth, mirthfulness, pleasedness
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)Something that gives great joy or pleasure.
Động từ
verb- 1.
To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.
A beautiful landscape delights the eye.
Đồng nghĩa: cheer up, perk up, beatify, enrapture, begladden, blissen, bright, cheer, fetch, cheer up, cherish, content, delight, elate, elevate, enbliss, exhilarate, fain, gay, gladden, gladden someone's heart, gratify, happify, happy, hearten, jollify, laetificate, light up, make someone's day, perk up, please, raise someone's spirits, rejoice, turn the frown upside down, upcheer, warm someone's heart, warm the cockles of someone's heart
- 2.
(intransitive)To have or take great pleasure.
A ſclaunderous tunge, a tunge of a ſkolde, Worketh more miſchiefe than can be tolde; That, if I wiſt not to be controlde, Yet ſomwhat to ſay I dare well be bolde,
Đồng nghĩa: blithen, happy
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Attested from the 13th century, from Middle English delite, from Old French deleiter, deliter, from Latin dēlectāre (to delight, please), frequentative of dēlicere (to allure, entice), from dē- (away) + laciō (to lure, to deceive), from Proto-Italic *lakjō (to draw, pull), of unknown ultimate origin. delect. Related with delectation, delicate, delicious and dilettante.