Words / B2

di-LYTFL/dɪˈlaɪtfl/

Delightful means very pleasant or attractive: a delightful setting; delightful to. Pleasant and charming are close twins; gorgeous (already in the dictionary) is stronger and equally vague without detail. Calling the site delightful is not analysis; name the landform. Mix-up: delightful vs delightful as a review cliché; delight (the noun); do not leave delightful as the whole evaluation.

Meaning

Very pleasant or attractive.

Examples

• “Calling the site delightful is not analysis; name the landform, the geography paper said.”
• “A delightful irony in the satire still needs the named target, the media paper said.”

Good to know

a delightful + noun; delightful to + verb. Close: pleasant / charming. Trap: a cliché with no detail. Geography, literature, and reviews. Very pleasant — still name the feature; too vague alone in a write-up.

Near in meaning

pleasant, charming, lovely

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