Crossword-Solution: DELIGHT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Delight | v. t. | A high degree of gratification of mind; a high- wrought state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction; joy. |
| Delight | v. t. | That which gives great pleasure or delight. |
| Delight | v. t. | Licentious pleasure; lust. |
| Delight | v. t. | To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly; as, a beautiful landscape delights the eye; harmony delights the ear. |
| Delight | v. i. | To have or take great delight or pleasure; to be greatly pleased or rejoiced; -- followed by an infinitive, or by in. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DELIGHT | anagram | LIGHTED |
We have 169 clues for the answer “DELIGHT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Afternoon __": suggestive #1 hit of 1976 | 1 answer |
| "Red sky at night, sailor's ___" | 1 answer |
| GIVE enjoyment to | 1 answer |
| Thrill to pieces | 2 answers |
| delectate | 2 answers |
| Utter joy | 3 answers |
| Please greatly | 4 answers |
| ARRIDE | 4 answers |
| GREAT pleasure | 4 answers |
| Great feeling | 5 answers |
| Tickle pink | 6 answers |
| CONFUSE (ant.) | 7 answers |
| GREAT joy | 8 answers |
| DISTURB (ant.) | 10 answers |
| Titillate | 10 answers |
| jubilate | 10 answers |
| A FEELING OF EXTREME PLEASURE OR SATISFACTION | 11 answers |
| Regale | 11 answers |
| fruition | 13 answers |
| BASK IN | 13 answers |
| Beatitude | 14 answers |
| Intoxicate | 15 answers |
| MAKE replete | 17 answers |
| delectation | 17 answers |
| Tickle | 18 answers |
| Exult | 18 answers |
| make beam | 18 answers |
| milepost | 19 answers |
| sequent | 19 answers |
| Wallow | 19 answers |
| spellbind | 21 answers |
| happenstance | 22 answers |
| MAKE fond of | 22 answers |
| ravish | 23 answers |
| Fetch | 23 answers |
| FLOW of spirits | 24 answers |
| Gladden | 27 answers |
| Enrapture | 28 answers |
| Fortuity. | 28 answers |
| MOVE merrily | 31 answers |
| Enthral | 31 answers |
| Elate | 31 answers |
| pleasantry | 32 answers |
| Gratify | 33 answers |
| Gloat | 33 answers |
| resultant | 34 answers |
| Optimism | 34 answers |
| BLISS ___ | 36 answers |
| Comedy __ | 38 answers |
| cartoon | 38 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DELIGHT (5)
Once you fit, great care must be taken to go on fitting, and this, as Wendy was to discover to her delight, keeps a whole family in perfect condition.
Fall’n Cherube, to be weak is miserable Doing or Suffering: but of this be sure, To do ought good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight, As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist.
The Crow and the Pitcher A CROW perishing with thirst saw a pitcher, and hoping to find water, flew to it with delight.
One could almost be positive that there was a malicious leer upon the hideous creature’s face, and a mischievous delight in its twitchings.
But he took it home on second thoughts, and soon found to his delight that it was an egg of pure gold.
Quotes with DELIGHT (3)
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. The rest of us know that though we can have erotic love and friendship for the same person yet in some ways nothing is less like a Friendship than a love-affair. Lovers are always talking to one another about their love; Friends hardly ever about their Friendship. Lovers are normally face to face, absorbed in each other; F…
I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WP.
Used 19 times in crossword archives (1968–2019).