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undelight

noun

Etymology

From un- + delight.

  1. derived from *lakjō✻
  2. derived from dēlectō
  3. derived from deleiter
  4. inherited from delite
  5. prefixed as undelight — “un + delight”

Definitions

  1. The condition or feeling of lacking delight

    The condition or feeling of lacking delight; unhappiness or displeasure.

    • Loud rise the sounds of sorrow, day and night, Where friends, clasped close in lingering undelight, Weep at the thought of parting. Matrons, ay,

  2. Something unpleasant or displeasing.

    • Along with the jollity of the trip from Tsing Hua into Peking are many undelights.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for undelight. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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