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Delightful vs Dazzling - What's the difference?

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Delightful is a related term of dazzling.


As adjectives the difference between delightful and dazzling

is that delightful is pleasant; pleasing, bringing satisfaction, enjoyment or pleasure while dazzling is shining intensely.

As a verb dazzling is

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As a noun dazzling is

the action of the verb to dazzle ; dazzlement.

delightful

English

Alternative forms

* delightfull (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pleasant; pleasing, bringing satisfaction, enjoyment or pleasure.
  • *
  • *:An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.

    • dazzling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Shining intensely.
  • * , Episode 12, The Cyclops
    • The deafening claps of thunder and the dazzling flashes of lightning which lit up the ghastly scene testified that the artillery of heaven had lent its supernatural pomp to the already gruesome spectacle.
  • Splendid; brilliant
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 18 , author=Ben Dirs , title=Carl Froch outclassed by dazzling Andre Ward , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Oakland native Ward is now unbeaten in 25 fights and can now claim to be one of the top few pound-for-pound fighters on the planet after a technically dazzling display.}}
  • Superlative; astounding

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to dazzle ; dazzlement
  • * 1837 , Minutes of the General Association of Massachusetts
    • Our organization secures the greatest amount of good unbalanced by accomplished evil of any known system, a good which resembles the sober hue of massive gold, rather than the splendid dazzlings of a baser metal.