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delightful

/dəˈlaɪt.fl̩/ adjective B1
  1. Pleasant; pleasing, bringing enjoyment, satisfaction, or pleasure.

Comparative delightfuler · Superlative delightfulest

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“You can really have no notion how delightful it will be When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to sea!” But the snail replied “Too far, too far!” and gave a look askance— Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not join the dance.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 77 · B2
It’s delightful when your imaginations come true, isn’t it?
Anne of Green Gables, p. 19 · C1
First came a delightful thrill, as of something very pleasant; then a horrible remembrance.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 38 · C1
Below the garden a green field lush with clover sloped down to the hollow where the brook ran and where scores of white birches grew, upspringing airily out of an undergrowth suggestive of delightful possibilities in ferns and mosses and woodsy things generally.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 38 · C1

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