delight

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noun

1 feeling of great pleasure

ADJECTIVE

▪ great

▪ absolute, utter

▪ pure, sheer

▪ mischievous (esp. BrE), perverse

▪ childish, childlike

▪ girlish (esp. BrE)

▪ evident, obvious

▪ aesthetic, sensory, sensual, spiritual, visual

▪

Flowering trees provide shade as well as visual delight.

VERB + DELIGHT

▪ express

▪ find, take

▪

She took evident delight in frightening the children with horror stories.

▪ bring, give sb

▪ laugh with, scream with, squeal with

▪

Alice squealed with sheer delight when she saw the monkeys.

PREPOSITION

▪ in delight, with delight

▪

We danced around with childish delight.

▪ of delight

▪

She gave a whoop of delight and dived into the water.

▪ to your delight

▪

To my great delight, they offered me the job.

▪ delight at

▪

He expressed his delight at seeing us all again.

▪ delight in

▪

I find a perverse delight in listening to traffic.

PHRASES

▪ a cry, gasp, squeal, etc. of delight

▪ much to sb's delight

▪

Much to the delight of the crowd, the band came back and did three encores.

2 sth that gives great pleasure

ADJECTIVE

▪ real

▪ constant

▪

The baby was a constant delight and source of amazement.

▪ unexpected

▪ culinary, gastronomic

▪ earthly

▪

He became deeply religious and turned away from earthly delights.

VERB + DELIGHT

▪ explore, sample

▪ enjoy, savour/savor

▪

Savour the culinary delights of Morocco.

PREPOSITION

▪ delight to

▪

The old lady's reminiscences were a continual delight to Constance.

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verb

Delight is used with these nouns as the object: ↑audience, ↑fan