Meanings
comparative more delighted · superlative most delighted
- Greatly pleased.
I am so delighted with my Tusculan villa that I never feel really happy till I get there.
1920, Cicero, translated by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, The Letters of Cicero: The Whole Extant Correspondence in Chronological Order, volume 1 (hardcover), London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., page 41 more example
Number forty-seven said to number three: / You're the cutest jailbird I ever did see. / I sure would be delighted with your company. / Come on and do the jailhouse rock with me.
1957, “Jailhouse Rock”, Elvis Presley (music) - Filled with wonder and delight.
Synonyms: elated, joyous, air-headed, blissed out, blissful, enrapt, rapt, cock-a-hoop
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of delight
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveFilled with wonder and delight.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivegreatly pleased
adjectivefilled with wonder and delight
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Arabic مَسْرُور
- مَسْرُور (masrūr)Greatly pleased
Catalan encantat
- encantatGreatly pleased
Chinese Mandarin 歡喜 /欢喜, 喜幸
- 歡喜 /欢喜 (huānxǐ)Greatly pleased
- 喜幸 (xǐxìng)Greatly pleased
- 痛快 (tòngkuai)Greatly pleased
- 欣喜 (xīnxǐ)Greatly pleased
Dutch verrukt
- verruktGreatly pleased
Esperanto ĝojigita
- ĝojigitaFilled with wonder and delight
Finnish hyvillään, ilahtunut
- hyvilläänGreatly pleased
- ilahtunutGreatly pleased
- iloinenGreatly pleased
- mielissäänGreatly pleased
- hyvilläänFilled with wonder and delight
- ilahtunutFilled with wonder and delight
- iloinenFilled with wonder and delight
- mielissäänFilled with wonder and delight
French ravi, ravi
- raviGreatly pleased
- raviFilled with wonder and delight
German erfreut, hocherfreut
- erfreutGreatly pleased
- hocherfreutGreatly pleased
Hindi हर्षित, प्रसन्न
- हर्षित (harṣit)Greatly pleased
- प्रसन्न (prasann)Greatly pleased
- मुदित (mudit)Greatly pleased
- आह्लादित (āhlādit)Greatly pleased
- हर्षित (harṣit)Filled with wonder and delight
- मुदित (mudit)Filled with wonder and delight
- प्रसन्न (prasann)Filled with wonder and delight
Italian entusiasta, onorato
- entusiastaGreatly pleased
- onoratoGreatly pleased
- orgogliosoGreatly pleased
- incantatoFilled with wonder and delight
- contentoFilled with wonder and delight
- feliceFilled with wonder and delight
- deliziatoFilled with wonder and delight
- estasiatoFilled with wonder and delight
- soddisfattoFilled with wonder and delight
Japanese 喜ぶ, 嬉しがる
- 喜ぶ (yorokobu)Greatly pleased
- 嬉しがる (ureshigaru)Greatly pleased
Polish zadowolony, usatysfakcjonowany
- zadowolonyGreatly pleased
- usatysfakcjonowanyGreatly pleased
- oczarowanyFilled with wonder and delight
- urzeczonyFilled with wonder and delight
- zauroczonyFilled with wonder and delight
Russian ра́достный, восто́рженный
- ра́достный (rádostnyj)Greatly pleased
- восто́рженный (vostóržennyj)Greatly pleased
- восхищённый (vosxiščónnyj)Filled with wonder and delight
- восто́рженный (vostóržennyj)Filled with wonder and delight
Spanish deleitado, delectado
- deleitadoGreatly pleased
- delectadoGreatly pleased
- deleitadoFilled with wonder and delight
- delectadoFilled with wonder and delight
Thai ยินดี
- ยินดี (yin-dii)Greatly pleased
Turkish memnun, çok hoşnut
- memnunGreatly pleased
- çok hoşnutGreatly pleased
Welsh wrth fodd
- wrth foddGreatly pleased
Cite this entry
delighted. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/delighted
“delighted.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/delighted. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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