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Definition of delightful:

  • (adjective) greatly pleasing or entertaining; "a delightful surprise"; "the comedy was delightful"; "a delicious joke"

Sentence Examples:

"That was a delightful surprise, my children," said their father, much gratified.

Compared with this, Macaulay's delightful and brilliant pictures are mere glorified journalism.

Can you imagine a more delightful oasis in this desert of filth and pollution?

No species of fiction is so delightful to us as the old English drama.

Wonderfully fascinated by this girl of twenty, Oswald spends a delightful evening.

Finally, as we have seen, he was the reputed author of some delightful lyrics.

If the weather has been as propitious as with us, it must be delightful.

She was devoted to athletics and a thoroughly normal and delightful person.

It is a city of delightful ease, of freedom and sunshine, of torrid heat.

A delightful change from the monotony and hard work of the village!

Nobody admits much sleep; but everybody is refreshed, and declares it delightful.

"I think, considering all things, that it's delightful here," said the carp.

They had music, served refreshments, and we had a most delightful time.

Asked the other, her brows wrinkling in a delightful way she had.

What delightful work they gave the chaplains and those associated with them!

He was a delightful man of fifty or thereabouts, a dear and gracious person.

We also envied her the delightful stunts that I believe I have mentioned before.

"Oh, Mark, how delightful he is," exclaimed Hester, her face all aglow.

And he was as neat and serviceable as he was delightful to be with.

Gerard would meekly affirm that he had had a most delightful evening.

Within due limits, no doubt all this is as healthful as it is delightful.

The wind was whipping against the window with a delightful crackling noise.

A delightful story of travel, delightfully told, handsomely illustrated, and beautifully bound.

She encouraged him, laughing that tinkling silver laugh that was so delightful.

Another delightful but expensive duplication occurs frequently in the matter of stores.

The uncertainty was just desperate enough to fill Ratty with delightful anticipations.

The metrical arrangement here is very delightful, and the Chorus-adjustment particularly happy.

Whistler found Carlyle a delightful person, and Carlyle found him a workman.

There is a delightful sensation of freedom as well as of bondage in matrimony.

It is delicately complexioned, daintily windowed, and altogether very fragrant and delightful.

I have always thought it would be perfectly delightful to be a great heiress.

We spent two delightful months, November and December, at the travelers' bungalow.

She exclaimed, 'how delightful you look, and what a perfectly lovely room!

The humor of them is delightful, and the rough homely diction perfect.

This delightful state of affairs was undisturbed, even undisputed, until Benjamin appeared.

After so much bustle the restful, shadowy stillness was delightful to us.

Quietude and antiquity, how eminently desirable and delightful when found, he thinks.

Their pleasant glens and thickets gave him delightful walks in the woods.

No species of fiction is so delightful to us as the old English drama.

Four incredibly gushing, thick years; what had happened to this delightful muck?

Excursions formed a delightful interlude; one on the lake of Como was an enchantment.

The author's style is charmingly easy, and the story is altogether delightful.

To him who loves, law is not irksome bondage but delightful direction.

He was still delightful and gay; but she was surfeited with emotion.

Sir Slasher had a delightful smile, and he was smiling delightfully now.

Such large down pillows, such deep roomy chairs and a delightful sofa.

And Laurent, smiling back, had a delightful sense of complicity with him.

Every one laughed and voted the young and clever American perfectly delightful.

We both felt, I know, a delightful, easy intimacy and friendliness and trust.

Our walk to his place of sojourn in the moonlight was very delightful.

At her command is a delightful roguish comedy and a horrible realistic tragedy.

What can be more delightful than a crust of bread by the wayside?

They greeted me, I assure you, with the most delightful frankness and ease.

At any rate, they do contain some delightful banter and "most ingenious nonsense."

The exercise was delightful to both after the inaction of two long days.

He's a dear delightful soul of course, but I'm afraid he has an amorous eye.

Social activities of the village were very simple, but very delightful and healthful.

He spoke of Fielding Hall's delightful book with appreciation tinged by kindly amusement.

It is impossibly hot indoors, but it will be delightful under the trees.

The sensations produced by the aspects of nature in May are indescribably delightful.

Yesterday, he and everybody else served me nobly, and arranged a delightful festivity.

Hill, of which demesne, indeed, it forms one of the most delightful parts.

A hundred thousand thanks for your delightful mainsail of that gallant little packet.

I sought and found a delightful nook, the other side of the ravine.

He was a carpenter by trade and his oddities were new and delightful.

The plot is developed very cleverly, and there is a delightful love theme.

The delightful exaggerations recall some of the brightest spots in American light literature.

This was joyful news a delightful variation from the toil on the fortifications.

An hour or so of that sort of thing gets tiresome, here it is delightful.

The weather was delightful, and autumn's golden tints in the foliage were beautiful.

They inhabit a delightful country, and are in amity with the United States.

Over all the sun shone with a brilliancy of a delightful September day.

Something delightful and yearning and brooding seemed to have taken possession of her.

Our principal diversions were in the winter, when we had delightful sleighing parties.

He could see all manner of "good times" in that delightful storeroom collection.

Violet found home and its beloved occupants dearer and more delightful than ever.

The plot is developed very cleverly, and there is a delightful love theme.

Ah, what a delightful city London is for the rich to live in!

He noticed that there were little touches of red on her delightful nostrils.

Cynicism recoils on the cynic; satire is always delightful, and is never offensive.

A beastly place, the town, but perfectly delightful country quite near at hand.

That acquaintance was delightful and tended to relieve the monotony of the trip.

You will find that stencilling is the most delightful of the home crafts.

We are not overrun by company; that makes it all the more delightful.

He also gave her a delightful little house on his estate of Passable, near Nice.

It is delightful to me to find how solidly you have been counting on me.

No outburst of eloquence could surpass the delightful persuasiveness of his ordinary conversation.

A fine Autumnal morning and the change from ship to shore was delightful.

I had Duke, a delightful horse who skims the ground like a bird.'

By next year he would be married; the delightful interlude would be finished.

The weather continues delightful, a balmy atmosphere brooding over a smooth, gray sea.

We had delightful music in the saloon, and all appeared cheerfulness and peace.

Its location is uncommonly delightful, and has often excited the admiration of strangers.

We camped in this delightful place, overlooking a vista I can never forget.

When the two were together, a delightful sense of harmony radiated from them.

The public rooms are situated near the baths, and command a delightful prospect.

The prospect of a stolen interview with the demure Kate was unspeakably delightful.

This was joyful news a delightful variation from the toil on the fortifications.

Humor of a rich and active character pervades the delightful history of Manasseh.

A dear, queer, delightful old town with ramparts and fortifications in fine preservation.