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DELIGHTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Filled with wonder and delight
Synonyms:
beguiled; captivated; charmed; delighted; enthralled; entranced
Classified under:
Similar:
enchanted (influenced as by charms or incantations)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Greatly pleased
Classified under:
Similar:
pleased (experiencing or manifesting pleasure)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb delight
Context examples:
“Ah, Mr. Holmes,” said he, heartily, as my friend entered, “I am delighted to see you.”
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then the children went home together, and were heartily delighted, and if they have not died, they are living still.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The Turk, amazed and delighted, endeavoured to kindle the zeal of his deliverer by promises of reward and wealth.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Beautiful and valuable knick-knacks filled every corner of every apartment, and the house had become a perfect miniature museum which would have delighted a virtuoso.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When we arrived at the Berkeley Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram waiting for him:—The Professor was delighted.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I confess that I delighted in this beating Leach was giving to Thomas Mugridge, though it was as terrible, almost, as the one Mugridge had caused to be given to Johnson.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. “I am delighted to hear it,” he said.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I am delighted to hear it,” said I, heartily. “I was afraid it was all up with him.”
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was in high spirits; as ready to talk and laugh as ever, and seemed delighted to speak of his former visit, and recur to old stories: and he was not without agitation.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Darcy was delighted with their engagement; his friend had given him the earliest information of it.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
