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delightful

adj
/dəˈlaɪt.fl̩/

Etymology

From Middle English deliteful, delitfull, equivalent to delight + -ful.

  1. inherited from deliteful

Definitions

  1. Pleasant

    Pleasant; pleasing, bringing enjoyment, satisfaction, or pleasure.

    • What? a higher delight to be drawn from the sight / Of fish full of life and of glee? / What a noodle you are! ’tis delightfuller far / To kill them than let them go free!
    • O, Joy! quicker than fire! O, Hope of things! / O, gracious gladness mighty with delight! / O, subtle sweet, delightfuler than might! / Ah, me, no fiercer laughing unction springs / From the fair Hope of things!

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at delightful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01delightful02enjoyment03enjoyable04pleasant05joking06engaging07attractive08charming

A definitional loop anchored at delightful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at delightful

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA