delight, v. 1. gratify, gladden, please, cheer, suit; thrill, excite, tickle, Inf. tickle pink; titillate; please highly, afford pleasure to, fill with joy, ravish; captivate, charm, enchant, entrance; transport, enrapture, enthrall, fascinate, bewitch, ensorcell; entertain, amuse, divert, refresh.
2. Usu.
delight in enjoy, appreciate, love, like; relish, savor, revel in, indulge in, feast on, delectate, Inf. smack one's lips over, Inf get a kick from, Inf. eat up; bask in, luxuriate in, wallow in.
-n. 3. pleasure, joy, gratification, Inf. paradise, Inf. heaven, Inf. thrill, Inf. kick; gladness, happiness, bliss, rejoicing, felicity, content; elation, jubilation, exhilaration, exultation; ecstasy, transport, ravishment, rapture, delirium; enchantment, charm, gaiety.
delighted, adj. pleased, happy, gladdened, elated, joyous, jubilant, ecstatic, thrilled; beaming, blooming, overjoyed, gladsome, content, Inf. in clover, Inf. jumping for joy, Inf. pleased as punch, Inf. tickled pink, Inf. feeling high or good; enraptured, ravished, transported, in heaven or paradise, carried away; charmed, enchanted, captivated, entranced.
delightful, adj. 1. delectable, delicious, enticing, tempting, inviting; joyous, cheering, enjoyable, pleasurable, welcome, gratifying, pleasure-giving.
2. thrilling, titillating, exciting; fascinating, enchanting, captivating, ravishing, enrapturing, transporting.
3. attractive, charming, prepossessing, engaging, winning; agreeable, congenial, amiable, winsome; lovely, heavenly.
delineate, v. 1. sketch, draft, outline roughly, block in or out; trace, figure, contour, draw the lines of; draw, design, diagram, draw a diagram of, chart, map or map out.
2. portray in words, depict, define, describe, Archaic. limn; outline verbally, paint a mental picture, set forth in words.
delineation, n. 1. chart, diagram, design, plan, map; sketch, tracing, rough draft, outline; lines, contour, shape, figure, form, profile, silhouette; drawing, portrait, picture, depiction, representation, rendition.
2. description, depiction, mental image or picture; verbal outline, account, report, relation, narration, story, tale.
delinquency, n. 1. dereliction, negligence, Law. nonfeasance, omission, failure, default; remissness, faithlessness, carelessness; wrongdoing, malefaction, malfeasance, misfeasance, Chiefly Law. malversation.
2. guilt, blame, fault; culpability, reprehensibility, criminality; crime, lawbreaking, wrong.
3. misdeed, misstep, offense, indiscretion, misdemeanor, infraction, violation; misconduct, misbehavior, disobedience, mischievousness; sin, transgression, trespass, wrong, peccadillo, venial sin.
delinquent, adj. 1. negligent, neglectful, derelict, faithless, careless, remiss, slack; guilty, culpable, blameworthy, reprehensible.
2. overdue, past due, due, in arrear; behind, back, late, tardy; unsettled, unpaid, owing, outstanding.
-n. 3. juvenile delinquent, misdemeanant, malefactor, misdoer; culprit, criminal, offender, youthful offender, wrongdoer, lawbreaker; hooligan, rascal, ruffian, hoodlum; roughneck, rowdy, SI. hood, tough, bully, SI. hard guy, Australian SI. larrikin; truant, rapscallion, Inf scalawag, Inf scofflaw; urchin, scamp, mischief-maker, bad boy.