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delighted meaning

EN[dɪˈlaɪtəd]
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    Definition of delighted in English Dictionary

  • VerbPREdé-
    1. simple past tense and past participle of delight.
    2. AdjectiveCOMmore delightedSUPmost delighted
      1. Greatly pleased.
        1. 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.
      2. Filled with wonder and delight.
      3. More Examples
        1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
          • Richard Feynman delighted in thumbing his nose at bureaucracy.
          • He delighted in discovering new music, was a regular gig-goer and gave mix tapes to friends.
          • All my doubts and depressions of the evening before had fled, and I was single-heartedly delighted with the world and everything in it.
      • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
        1. Adjectives
          • Verbs
            • Verb forms
              • Participles
                • Past participles
                • Verb simple past forms
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            1. en delightedly
            2. en delightedness
            Source: Wiktionary

            Meaning of delighted for the defined word.

            Grammatically, this word "delighted" is an adjective. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.
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