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Delightful vs Endearing - What's the difference?

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Delightful is a related term of endearing.


As adjectives the difference between delightful and endearing

is that delightful is pleasant; pleasing, bringing satisfaction, enjoyment or pleasure while endearing is inspiring love or affection, in a childlike way.

As a verb endearing is

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As a noun endearing is

endearment.

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’.

    • endearing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Inspiring love or affection, in a childlike way.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • endearment
  • * (Jack London)
    • It was arms around, and perpetual endearings , and all that I had missed for a weary twelve-month.

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