Delight vs Excited - What's the difference?
delight | excited |
Joy; pleasure.
* Bible, Proverbs xviii. 2
* Shakespeare
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* Milton:
* (Greensleeves):
To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.
* Tennyson
(label) To have or take great pleasure
Having great enthusiasm.
* 2011 , (Rebecca Black) featuring
(physics) Being in a state of higher energy.
Having an erection; erect.
As verbs the difference between delight and excited
is that delight is to give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly while excited is .As a noun delight
is joy; pleasure.As an adjective excited is
having great enthusiasm.delight
English
Noun
(en noun)- A fool hath no delight in understanding.
- Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}
- Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight .
- Greensleeves was all my joy / Greensleeves was my delight,
Derived terms
* undelight * delightfulVerb
(en verb)- Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds.
Derived terms
* delight inExternal links
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* *excited
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was very excited about his promotion.
- Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday
- Today i-is Friday, Friday
- We-we-we so excited
- We so excited
- We gonna have a ball today.
- The excited electrons give off light when they drop to a lower energy state.
