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delighted - Word of the Day - Tue Sep 3, 2024

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delighted - (adj) - feeling or showing great pleasure

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They were delighted with the surprise party their friends had organized.

 

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drpaladin
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From the Latin delectare, meaning to allure, charm, or please.

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JamesSavik
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I'm always delighted to see a new title by one of my top 100 authors.

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With its Latin root, delighted can be one of those puzzler words for people who try to decipher meanings by breaking words down. One might think it means something was unlit, as in, the fireman quickly delighted the fire with an extinguisher.

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Bill W
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Hell, I'm to the age where I'm delighted when I wake up in the morning.  

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1 hour ago, Bill W said:

Hell, I'm to the age where I'm delighted when I wake up in the morning.  

Me also, sadly this morning was no exception.

 

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Most days, you could interchange/switch the site names and get the same old, same old stuff on the, Word of the Day. Today I found one that offered something more(hip hip hooray)!  When to, when not to, what words to say with or not to. Just the sort of info I really find helpful.

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– delightful

1. 'delighted'

If you are delighted, you are very pleased and excited about something.

He was delighted with his achievement.
He was delighted to meet them again.

You do not use words such as 'very' or 'extremely' in front of delighted. If you want to say that someone is extremely pleased and excited, you can say that they are absolutely delighted.

They were absolutely delighted with François from the start.

You do not use words such as 'fairly', 'quite', or 'almost' in front of delighted.

2. 'delightful'

Do not confuse delighted with delightful. If you say that someone or something is delightful, you mean that they are very pleasant and attractive.

Her children really are delightful.
...a delightful room.

Delighted - definition of delighted by The Free Dictionary

 

This same site has a,

Thesaurus

Adj. 1. delighted - greatly pleased
pleased - experiencing or manifesting pleasure
  2. delighted - filled with wonder and delightdelighted - filled with wonder and delight  
enchanted - influenced as by charms or incantations
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.

delighted

 

Of course this last bit, sent me off once again(surprise), honest I don't make them up, but you have to admit some are eye catching/thought provoking? Take for example, cock-a-hoop!

Cock-a-hoop - definition of cock-a-hoop by The Free Dictionary

 

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4 hours ago, Bill W said:

Hell, I'm to the age where I'm delighted when I wake up in the morning.  

And then, for some, you wake up in the morning and say, "Oh, god, another day."

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16 hours ago, sandrewn said:

You do not use words such as 'very' or 'extremely' in front of delighted. If you want to say that someone is extremely pleased and excited, you can say that they are absolutely delighted.

They were absolutely delighted with François from the start.

You do not use words such as 'fairly', 'quite', or 'almost' in front of delighted.

 
     
     

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Ouch! These are very restrictive rules that I did not know existed. Often when I want to describe my state of delightedness, I need something between just being delighted and being absolutely delighted, and I'm not delighted to find I can't use those modifiers. On the other hand I am quite, very, extremely and absolutely delighted to realize I can break these rules. :hug:

Just don't start me on other rules that I believe people should not break, like using less and fewer. 

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drpaladin
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15 minutes ago, Paladin said:

Just don't start me on other rules that I believe people should not break, like using less and fewer

Now I would be delighted with less and fewer rules.

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