English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈlaɪtɪd/
Adjective
delighted (comparative more delighted, superlative most delighted)
- Greatly pleased.
1957, “Jailhouse Rock”, Elvis Presley (music):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.
- Filled with wonder and delight.
- Synonyms: elated, joyous; see also Thesaurus:blissful
Derived terms
Translations
Greatly pleased
- Arabic: مَسْرُور (ar) (masrūr)
- Catalan: encantat (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 歡喜 / 欢喜 (zh) (huānxǐ), 喜幸 (xǐxìng), 痛快 (zh) (tòngkuai), 欣喜 (zh) (xīnxǐ)
- Cornish: pur lowen
- Dutch: verrukt (nl)
- Finnish: hyvillään (fi), ilahtunut (fi), iloinen (fi), mielissään
- French: ravi (fr)
- Galician: encantado
- German: erfreut (de), hocherfreut (de)
- Hindi: हर्षित (hi) (harṣit), प्रसन्न (hi) (prasann)
- Italian: entusiasta (it), onorato (it), orgoglioso (it)
- Japanese: 喜ぶ (ja) (よろこぶ, yorokobu) (be delighted), 嬉しがる (うれしがる, ureshigaru) (be delighted)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: رازی (razî)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Russian: ра́достный (ru) (rádostnyj), восто́рженный (ru) (vostóržennyj)
- Spanish: encantado (es)
- Thai: ยินดี (th) (yin-dii)
- Turkish: memnun (tr), çok hoşnut
- Welsh: wrth fodd
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Filled with wonder and delight
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Translations to be checked
- Ido: (please verify) joyoza (io)
- Norman: (please verify) ravi (Jersey)
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Verb
delighted
- simple past and past participle of delight