# delighted

Pronunciation: say "di-LY-tid" /dɪˈlaɪtɪd/

## Adjective

1. Feeling great pleasure and happiness about something.
   - Simple: Feeling very happy and pleased about something.
   - _The committee was delighted by the huge turnout at the fundraiser._
   - _He felt delighted when he heard that the loan had been approved._
2. Filled with wonder and a sense of great joy at something.
   - Simple: Feeling full of joy and wonder at something amazing.
   - _Visitors stood delighted before the strange, glowing beauty of the cave._
   - _The whole audience sat delighted as the dancers spun across the stage._

## Verb

3. Simple past tense and past participle of delight. — simple past and past participle of delight
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of delight. Use this form for something that already happened.
   - _The magician delighted everyone with his final, impossible trick._
   - _For years she delighted in long, quiet walks by the river._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/delighted (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).