Synonyms of the word delight


DELIGHTDELECTATION - DELIGHT - ENCHANT - ENJOY - ENRAPTURE - ENTHRAL - ENTHRALL - GRATIFY - JOY - PLEASANCE - PLEASE - PLEASURE - RAVISH - REVEL - SATISFY - TRANSPORT

delight

  • n. Joy; pleasure.
  • n. Something that gives great joy or pleasure.
  • v. To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.
  • v. (intransitive) To have or take great pleasure.

delectation

  • n. great pleasure; delight.

delight

  • n. Joy; pleasure.
  • n. Something that gives great joy or pleasure.
  • v. To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.
  • v. (intransitive) To have or take great pleasure.

enchant

  • v. To attract and delight, to charm.
  • v. To cast a spell over.

enjoy

  • v. To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.
  • v. To have the use or benefit of something.
  • v. To have sexual intercourse with.

enrapture

  • v. To fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate.

enthral

  • v. (transitive) To hold spellbound; to bewitch, charm or captivate.
  • v. (transitive) To make subservient; to enslave or subjugate.

enthrall

  • v. (transitive) To hold spellbound; to bewitch, charm or captivate.
  • v. (transitive) To make subservient; to enslave or subjugate.

gratify

  • v. To please.
  • v. To make content, to satisfy.

joy

  • n. A feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of…
  • n. Anything that causes such a feeling.
  • n. Luck or success; a positive outcome.
  • n. (obsolete) The sign or exhibition of joy; gaiety; merriment; festivity.
  • v. (intransitive) To feel joy, to rejoice.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To enjoy.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To give joy to; to congratulate.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.

pleasance

  • n. (archaic) A pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water;…
  • n. (obsolete) Pleasure.

please

  • v. (transitive) To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.
  • v. (intransitive, ergative) To desire; to will; to be pleased by.
  • adv. Used to make a polite request.
  • adv. Used as an affirmative to an offer.
  • adv. An expression of annoyance or impatience.
  • adv. (regional, Cincinnati) Said as a request to repeat information.

pleasure

  • n. (uncountable) A state of being pleased.
  • n. (countable) A person, thing or action that causes enjoyment.
  • n. (uncountable) One's preference.
  • n. (formal, uncountable) The will or desire of someone or some agency in power.
  • interj. pleased to meet you.
  • v. (transitive) To give or afford pleasure to; to please; to gratify.
  • v. (transitive) To give sexual pleasure to.
  • v. (intransitive, dated) To take pleasure; to seek or pursue pleasure.

ravish

  • v. (obsolete or archaic) To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
  • v. (transitive, usually passive) To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.
  • v. (transitive, now rare) To rape.

revel

  • n. An instance of merrymaking; a celebration.
  • v. To make merry; to have a gay, lively time.
  • v. To take delight in.
  • v. (obsolete) To draw back; to retract.
  • n. (architecture) Alternative form of reveal.

satisfy

  • v. (transitive) To do enough for; to meet the needs of; to fulfill the wishes or requirements of.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (a sentence) to be true when the sentence is interpreted in one's universe.
  • v. (dated, literary, transitive) To convince by ascertaining; to free from doubt.
  • v. (transitive) To pay to the extent of what is claimed or due.
  • v. (transitive) To answer or discharge (a claim, debt, legal demand, etc.); to give compensation for.

transport

  • v. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
  • v. (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
  • v. (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
  • n. An act of transporting; conveyance.
  • n. The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
  • n. A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.).
  • n. (Canada) A tractor-trailer.
  • n. The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
  • n. A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
  • n. (historical) A deported convict.

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