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.

delighted

– delightful

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 delight   beguiled, enthralled, entranced, captivated, charmed enchanted - influenced as by charms or incantations

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

Much of GA is delighted to know and recognize the word delighted. 🤣

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.

 

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.

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