delightful – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of delightful

Adjective: delightful

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativedelightfuler; delightfuller
Superlativedelightfulest; delightfullest

Perifrastic

Comparativemore delightful
Superlativemost delightful

Sample Sentences

  • What? a higher delight to be drawn from the sight / Of fish full of life and of glee? / What a noodle you are! ’tis delightfuller far / To kill them than let them go free! [1853, Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “The Two Brothers”, in Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, editor, The Lewis Carroll Picture Book […], London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1899, →OCLC, page 22:]
  • O, Joy! quicker than fire! O, Hope of things! / O, gracious gladness mighty with delight! / O, subtle sweet, delightfuler than might! / Ah, me, no fiercer laughing unction springs / From the fair Hope of things! [1888, Venier Voldo, “Memoria in Eterna”, in Poems from the Pacific: The West’s Reply to England’s Laureate, 2nd edition, San Francisco, Calif.: The Bancroft Company, →OCLC, page 134:]
  • Hon. Collier Weekly which furnish Japanese Schoolboy to public not often enough, when is his book coming out? […] That Boy is the dearest & sweetest & frankest & wisest & funniest & delightfulest & lovablest creation that has been added to our literature for a long time. [Benjamin Griffin, Harriet Elinor Smith, editors (2015), “Explanatory Notes”, in Autobiography of Mark Twain (The Mark Twain Papers), volume 3, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 599]
  • Congratulations on that delightful absurdity about Nimzovitch[.] [1951 July, A. W. Marschner, “Readers' Forum”, in Chess Review:]
  • An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed 'to save notepaper') and enter into the delightful pastime of 'a chicken from Mr Whiteley's'. [1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN:]
  • That is what I plan to do at Yahoo: give the end user something valuable and delightful that makes them want to come to Yahoo every day. [2013 December 11, Megan Garber, quoting Marissa Mayer, “Is ‘Delightful’ the New ‘Cool’?”, in The Atlantic:]

Adjectives inflected like delightful

delightful, cruel, wilful, cheerful, willful,

Etymology

From Middle English deliteful, delitfull, equivalent to delight + -ful.