delightfully en · ADV
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Etymology tree English delightful Middle English -ly English -ly English delightfully From delightful + -ly.
Meanings
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In a delightful manner.
The result, disappointingly, is a scattershot work that is, by turns, entertaining and wearisome, energetic and hokey, delightfully evocative and cheaply sensational; dead-on in its conjuring of zeitgeist-y atmospherics, but often slow-footed and ham-handed in its orchestration of social details.
2013 September 10, Michiko Kakutani, “A Calamity Tailor-Made for Internet Conspiracy Theories”, in The New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most delightfully | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more delightfully | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Translations (2)
es deleitosamente (Translations) · es deleitablemente (Translations)