delighting
present participle ofdelight
delight
verb[T]
uk/dɪˈlaɪt/us/dɪˈlaɪt/to give someonegreatpleasureorsatisfaction:
Peter'sacademicsuccessdelighted hisfamily.
Opposite
displeaseformal
Causing pleasure
- agreeable
- agreeableness
- agreeably
- all things to all peopleidiom
- attractive
- deliciously
- delight
- delightful
- delightfully
- distraction
- homely
- homey
- indulgent
- indulgently
- jovial
- sensual
- sensuous
- sensuously
- serendipitous
- sweeten
Phrasal verb
delight insomething
Examplesofdelighting
delighting
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Ways ofdelightingin how children behave musically and reveal their musical learning through conversation are discussed.
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Rather thandelightingin an arrested infancy, he was bristling with the violence of undirected and unloved adolescence.
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This, in fact, is what both of their eighteenthcentury biographers said about them,delightingin their reinvention of a literary relationship.
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A work of literature defies reduction to a single set of propositions; the art ofdelightingcannot be entirely subsumed under the need to teach.
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I never thought of their potential to deter some participants from ever going near a drama workshop again, even whiledelightingand developing others.
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I suppose that it is a way ofdelightingthe tribe, any way ofdelightingthe tribe, without creating wealth in itself.
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There is nothing wrong withdelighting, informing, even irritating an informed public.
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There are maybe those enemies within or without this country who aredelightingin the dismay which we are experiencing at this time.
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Many of us have seen the children of other countriesdelightingin the theatre.
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Many of those who come in to work could take advantage of car-sharing schemes that are already proving very successful, and aredelightingmany who use them.
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Players did not get £25,000 a day; they got £12 a week maximum, fordelightingcrowds with their skills and performing in front of much bigger crowds than we sometimes see today.
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Wherever she has gone, she has shown her genius for making friends anddelightingthe people.
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A full-size biplane was used in the production,delightingaudiences.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For the purpose of the version of the myth given above, the word has been taken as meaningdelightingin horses.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Elitist narrative and poetry quickly gave way to narrative and poetry interested anew in not merely teaching (via content or style) but indelighting.
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- ball-pit
- ballplayer
- ballpoint pen
- ballpoint-pen
- ball pond
- ball-pond
- ball pool
- ball-pool
- ballroom
- ballroom dancing
- ballroom-dancing
- balls
- ball sack
- ball-sack
- ball-s-in-court
- balls (something) up
- balls (sth) up
- balls-sth-up
- balls-to-the-wall
- balls-to-the-wall
- balls-up
- balls-up
- balls-up
- ballsy
- ball-tampering